Uber has turned a “frenemy” into a partner. Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz, today announced a partnership with Uber that will see the German automaker providing self-driving vehicles to the ride-hailing app in the “coming years.” To date, Uber has partnered with Volvo and bought vehicles from Ford to address what founder and CEO Travis Kalanick has called a “basically existential” issue for the company: the development of autonomous vehicles. (It also partners with
The company behind Mercedes is providing self-driving cars to Uber
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