Bill Gates has shown support of Uber saying that the company could be the first company to break into autonomous vehicles because the company has the biggest research and development budget of any other firm investigating the driverless vehicle sector. The CEO of Uber, Dara Khosrowshahi, said in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday that he believes self-driving cars will become a reality within five years. He went on to express that the real threat to the taxi industry won't happen until fully driverless cars are on the roads.
Bill Gates has shown support of Uber saying that the company could be the first company to break into autonomous vehicles because the company has the biggest research and development budget of any other firm investigating the driverless vehicle sector. In an interview with Izabella Kaminska of Forbes, he also expressed that he sees the company as 'a reorganisation labour into a more dynamic form.' He went on to express that the real threat to the taxi industry won't happen until fully driverless cars are on the roads.