Uber Wants to Turn Millions of Drivers into a Sensor Network for Autonomous Vehicle Companies

Friends, a quick note from the AV world: Uber plans to outfit human-driven cars with sensors to gather real-world data.

- CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga announced this as an expansion of AV Labs; Uber already runs a small fleet.
- Motivation: data scarcity—AV companies need diverse, labeled scenarios.
- Uber is building an 'AV cloud' and lets partners run models in shadow mode; it already has 25 partners.

Why it matters: access to such a dataset will speed model training and give Uber market leverage.

Do you think combining ride services and data supply is justified?

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