Toyota invests US $500 million to develop car with Uber

Toyota will invest about 500 million of dollars with the Uber as part of a cooperation agreement to produce autonomous vehicles, informed the Japanese group on Tuesday (28). The agreement, which according to reports would raise the value of the Uber at $72 billion, aims to raise the transport as a large-scale mobility service, said Toyota. The two companies will integrate technology in Toyota vehicles specially designed and if will implement on Uber platform with the launch of the first pilot to 2021. Uber suspended your car program as after a hit-and-run accident that killed a woman in a street of Arizona, last March. Last month, the company based in San Francisco returned to the program putting cars on the road, but standalone with a human behind the wheel at all times. The tests will make it possible to compile data on Uber different scenarios that will be recreated in computer simulations, and also develop more accurate maps for the vehicles.