---
title: "Google is working on it’s own self-driving Uber competitor"
description: "The two companies are going to war over self-driving taxis."
date: "2015-02-03"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Christine Doan"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/christine_doan"
url: "https://futurism.com/google-is-working-on-its-own-self-driving-uber-competitor"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
  - "Google"
  - "Self-Driving Vehicles"
tags:
  - "transport"
---

# Google is working on it’s own self-driving Uber competitor

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- Google Ventures, the search giant's venture capital arm, invested $258 million in Uber in August 2013. It was Google Ventures' largest investment deal ever, and the company put more money into Uber's next funding round less than a year later.
- Now there are signs that the companies are more likely to be ferocious competitors than allies. Google is preparing to offer its own ride-hailing service, most likely in conjunction with its long-in-development driverless car project. Drummond has informed Uber's board of this possibility, according to a person close to the Uber board.
- Uber is also teaming up with Carnegie Mellon University for a research facility in Pittsburgh, Pa., to develop its own autonomous vehicle technology, the company announced on Monday. (The news was reported earlier by TechCrunch.)