Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be “everything for everyone”
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Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company's financial-services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and how AI is starting to show up in ways riders and drivers will actually notice.
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Uber is doing everything they can to slow down autonomous vehicles. This is absolutely absurd and will cost lives
— Ethan McKanna (@ethanmckanna) July 12, 2026
They want autonomous vehicle services to have human drivers serve 85 percent of rides??? pic.twitter.com/chKiWQjr5b