Inside Otto, Uber’s New Self-Driving Truck Division

Aug 19, 2016, 09:39 PM

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When others looked at Uber's aggressive expansion around the world and wondered if the super-unicorn wasn't going too fast or taking too little care, one imagines the founders of Otto looked on with much approval.

Before January, this startup specializing in outfitting commercial trucks with self-driving technology did not exist. Its expert employees were toiling away on autonomous vehicle projects at places like [f500link]Google[/f500link], [f500link]Apple[/f500link] and Tesla.