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Uber teams with Avride to offer self-driving vehicles for rides and food deliveries


Uber has entered a new deal with autonomous vehicle specialist Avride to offer customers in select cities an option for self-driving vehicles.

The multi-year deal will begin by introducing Avride's self-driving robots as a delivery option for Uber Eats orders in Austin, Texas. Before spinning out as a new business concern, Yandex landed a similar deal in 2021 for its self-driving robots to make Grubhub deliveries to college campuses in the US. That year its autonomous vehicles reached a milestone of 6 million miles logged under "challenging conditions," mostly traveled in and around Moscow.

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