Uber has been able to hire Google's former Vice President of advanced technologies.
Uber has taken an initiative to enhance its capacity. The app-based cab service provider has been able to poach a second official of Google Maps. Manik Gupta made an announcement on LinkedIn that he is currently the ride sharing enterprise’s director of products for maps, after he left a similar job at Google Maps.
At his new post, Manik would be reuniting with Brian McClendon, who is known for playing a leading role in developing Google Earth and Google Map before becoming a part of the cab company as its VP of advanced technologies in June. Precisely, Brian’s responsibilities encompass automobile safety and mapping and the pioneering of driverless automobiles.
In the past 12 months, the transporter has taken big initiatives to enhance its mapping and location technology. Uber news affirmed that the enterprise, which has been able to raise a notable $8.21bn till now, is yet known to customers as a convenient application based option to hail cab by the roadside.
The Californian organization, nevertheless, views itself as bigger than just a transporter. To underpin that, the transporter is rapidly hiring, poaching away some of the topmost officials and researchers who are known for working in the corporate and educational worlds. Uber reportedly lured a large number of scientists who have worked at Carnegie Mellon that had to donate $5.5m to the educational institution to finance three graduate fellowships and a new robotics faculty chair.
Uber news today exclaimed that previously this year, it also attained Microsoft Bing’s assets, encompassing 100 workers who are known for handling image collection and information and purchased a mapping technology startup known as DeCarta to enhance facilities, such as UberPool, and the means that it employs to calculate estimate arriving time.
Its mapping vehicles would play a role in decreasing the company’s dependence on maps designed by Google and rest of the organizations. Since Uber is mainly known as a logistical technology enterprise that is required to explore the means to coordinate huge numbers of automobiles and persons (and, in some of the cases, on demand supplies) as effectively as possible, developing out its maps and algorithms instead of depending on outside service providers is essential for its success.
Uber technologies informed that amongst the driverless vehicles, maps packaged with real time information, and number of talented people is currently serving it. The transporter’s new mapping expertise might finally develop its “God View tool” - once kept as a cautionary example of the taxi company’s prowess- seem almost primitive when compared.
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