🇺🇸 영어 원문
Uber’s Autonomous Vehicle Strategy: Slow Their Adoption
In at least two places, Uber has pushed a policy that could give it an advantage over developers of self-driving cars. The company says it’s fighting monopolies.
A decade ago, then-Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said he saw autonomous vehicles as an existential threat to the ride-hail company’s business model. “What would happen if we weren’t a part of that future? If we weren’t part of the autonomy thing? Then the future passes us by,” Kalanick told Business Insider.
In the years since, Uber has settled on a strategy that, rather than see it build and operate its own self-driving cars, puts it on track to become the place where riders can get connected with any ride, driven by a human or robot. “We think there are going to be many AV players around the world, and we want to be the go-to commercial platform for all of them,” now-CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told investors in 2024. Since then, the company has signed agreements with more than 25 major robotaxi players, with driverless vehicles from Waymo, Nuro, Baidu, and Volkswagen’s MOIA either available or soon to be available on the Uber app in several global cities.
Now, according to documents viewed by WIRED, Uber’s lobbyists are pushing to build that strategy into law. The company’s representatives have pressed lawmakers to deploy autonomous vehicles on what it calls “hybrid networks,” where human drivers work alongside robots as the new tech grows.
In New Jersey, a lobbyist representing Uber took the strategy a step further, circulating legislative language that would, for a period of three years, require any platform offering driverless ride-hailing services to have human drivers serve 85 percent of its rides.
The language would likely prevent self-driving vehicle developers, including Waymo, Zoox, and Tesla, from operating their own ride-hail apps in the state—effectively forcing them onto another ride-hail app if they hope to enter the market and limiting competition for Uber, the country’s reigning ride-hail leader.
A representative for Uber pitched a version of the proposal to New Jersey state senator Andrew Zwicker. Zwicker is the sponsor of a bill currently being considered by the state legislature that would establish New Jersey’s first set of rules governing self-driving cars on public roads. The Uber lobbyists’ proposed language restricting standalone robotaxi-hailing apps is not currently part of the bill, which could come up for a vote this fall.
The New Jersey bill is the first proposed in the nation that would limit the operation of Tesla’s robotaxis, because it requires AV developers to use multiple sensors to power its software, rather than just cameras, as Tesla’s technology does. It would also require vehicles to be operated in emergencies using steering wheels and brake pedals, which purpose-built vehicles must have.
🇰🇷 한국어 요약
이 글은 우버가 자유주행 차량 기술의 확산을 지연시키고 있다는 사실에 대해 알아주며, 특히 뉴저지주에서 우버가 법연한 진출을 추각한 사항을 소개합니다. 오늘날 우버는 자유주행 차량을 적체하고 시하는 것이 아니라, 인간 운전자와 로보측이 함께 일하는 소속 농도를 지키고 있습니다. 특히 뉴저지주는 자유주행 차량이 서비스의 85%는 인간 운전자가 세우러야 한다는 제안을 고려 중입니다. 이는 테슬라 등 신격 기업들이 자유로 서비스를 제공하는 것을 지연하는 결과를 끊을 수 있으며, 우버의 시장 주도적 지위를 강화하려는 전랱으로 보입니다. 시간의 지토적 유통을 위해 기술 진화와 공정한 경쟁 간의 균형을 어떻게 맞추아야 하는지 사고해 보는 것이 중요합니다.
🔑 핵심 단어 (Vocabulary)
- Autonomous – 자유의, 자율의 – Uber’s Autonomous Vehicle Strategy
- Existential threat – 존재적 위험 – autonomous vehicles as an existential threat
- Strategy – 전략 – Uber has settled on a strategy
- Lobbyists – 로비스트 (정치적 영향력 작용자) – Uber’s lobbyists are pushing to build that strategy into law
- Legislation – 법연, 제정 – circulating legislative language
- Competition – 경쟁 – limiting competition for Uber
- Platform – 플랫폼 – go-to commercial platform for all of them
- Sensors – 센서 – requires AV developers to use multiple sensors
- Regulations – 규제 – rules governing self-driving cars
- Emergencies – 비상 상황 – operated in emergencies using steering wheels
🔗 원문 링크
https://www.wired.com/story/ubers-autonomous-vehicle-strategy-slow-their-adoption/