{"id":998289,"date":"2026-03-14T09:05:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998289"},"modified":"2026-03-14T09:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:54:23","slug":"uber-and-motional-launch-commercial-robotaxi-service-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/14\/uber-and-motional-launch-commercial-robotaxi-service-in-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber and Motional launch commercial robotaxi service in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uber and Hyundai Motor-backed autonomous vehicle firm Motional launched a commercial robotaxi service in Las Vegas on Friday, the latest in a string of similar tie-ups as the ride-hailing platform doubles down on its self-driving taxi strategy. <\/p>\n<p>Uber has already partnered with major players in the \u200cspace, including \u2060Baidu, \u2060Amazon&#8217;s Zoox, Nissan and British startup Wayve, and said it will invest \u200bmore than $100 million to develop autonomous vehicle charging hubs as the sector races \u200bto commercialise driverless mobility at scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber and Hyundai Motor-backed autonomous vehicle firm Motional launched a commercial robotaxi service in Las Vegas on Friday, the latest in a string of similar tie-ups as the ride-hailing platform doubles down on its self-driving taxi strategy. Uber has already partnered with major players in the \u200cspace, including \u2060Baidu, \u2060Amazon&#8217;s Zoox, Nissan and British startup Wayve, and said it will invest \u200bmore than $100 million to develop autonomous vehicle charging hubs as the sector races \u200bto commercialise driverless mobility at scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}