Uber Debuts New Services for Autonomous Vehicle Partners

Uber has debuted Autonomous Solutions, a suite of services and capabilities designed for autonomous vehicles.

These capabilities have already begun helping partners build and commercialize autonomous vehicles (AVs) in markets worldwide, Uber said in a Monday (Feb. 23) news release.

“Autonomous technology has remarkable potential to make transportation safer and more affordable,” CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in the release.

“Innovation in autonomy is moving quickly, but meaningful commercialization will take much longer. For more than a decade, Uber has helped set the standard for on-demand mobility and built the capabilities that make ‘push a button and get a ride’ work at global scale. With Uber Autonomous Solutions, we’re externalizing these hard-won competencies for our partners.”

Aside from getting access to Uber’s demand marketplace, the new services are designed to provide the capabilities required for end-to-end commercialization, lowering cost per mile while boosting speed to market.

“They also bring comprehensive product development and support capabilities, designed to make autonomous trips more reliable for users and more economical for operators,” the company said.

The new offering is based around user experience, fleet operations and infrastructure, the news release added.

“Autonomous vehicles can’t hit the road without the right infrastructure. Uber provides the digital and physical foundations—combining data, mapping, regulatory access, and financing–to help partners deploy autonomy smoothly at scale,” Uber said.

As PYMNTS wrote earlier this month, Uber devoted unusual attention in its materials from its recent earnings report to autonomous vehicles.

For their part, the company’s executives did not promise imminent transformation but tried to curb expectations.

“The company’s argument was that autonomy will arrive unevenly, scale slowly and reward platforms capable of balancing fixed and flexible supply,” that report said.

Uber views itself as one of those platforms, with executives suggesting that the company’s early deployments in Austin and Atlanta demonstrating that adding autonomous vehicles to Uber’s network boosts total demand rather than cannibalizing human-driven trips. At the same time, Uber warned against extrapolating from San Francisco, which has atypical regulatory conditions and demographics.

“We enter 2026 with a rapidly growing topline, significant cash flow, and a clear path to becoming the largest facilitator of AV trips in the world,” Khosrowshahi said.

“Uber accelerated into another record-breaking quarter, with more than 200 million monthly users completing more than 40 million trips every day — our largest and most engaged consumer base ever,” the CEO added.

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