Uber launches AV Labs to collect long-tail autonomous vehicle data

Uber has launched AV Labs, a new team focused on accelerating the autonomy ecosystem by unlocking the hardest problem in the field today – a data flywheel that covers real-world, long-tail driving scenarios.

As machine learning technology advances, autonomy is increasingly a data and modeling race. Progress no longer hinges on closed-course testing or simulated environments alone – it depends on learning from rare, messy, real-world scenarios that only appear at scale. These edge cases are difficult and expensive to capture, and they remain a major bottleneck to deploying safe, reliable autonomy, at scale, in a reliable and sustainable way.

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