Travis Calnnik tries to buy a dowry. Uber may help

Uber Travis Kalanick’s founder is looking for ways to buy US arm for independent Chinese vehicles pony.aiAccording to the New York Times. Kalanick is said to work with investors to finance the acquisition, and may help Uber even in achieving treatment, according to the Times reports.

Pony.ai It was announced last year The maximum market was about $ 4.5 billion before the New York Times report was published. The report states that Pony began preparing his arm in the United States for sale or secession in 2022, to the creation of a “eager” version of its source code.

Gen.ai will return Kalanick to the world of self -driving cars for the first time since it was expelled from Uber in 2017.

Uber was working on its own autonomous vehicle technology at the time. In 2018, one of her test vehicles A pedestrian was killed in Arizona. He sold an alternative to Kalanik, Dara Khusraushi, Uber’s self -driving division, to start transporting independent trucks. During the reign of Khosrudshahi, Uber followed a partnership approach, as she brought self -driving cars to their platform from companies like Waymo.

Kalanick has increased the robots in recent years as Ghost Kitchen Cloudkitcents operates. It is said that he is still running Cloudkitchens daily if he bought pony.ai.

In March, Calnik He said in an event This was only “behind Waymo but may be attached to” at the time when he was expelled from Uber. (Uber and Waymo was eventually imprisoned in a legal battle on commercial secrets related to independent cars that were StabilizeRegarding the decision of Josesarhahi to sell the department, Kalanik said: “I did not manage the company when that happened, but you know, you can say,” I hope we have a separate participating product at the present time. It will be great. “