{"id":29300,"date":"2016-08-24T03:47:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T10:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/uber-acquires-self-driving-truck-startup-otto-for-680-million"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:21:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:21:18","slug":"uber-acquires-self-driving-truck-startup-otto-for-680-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/uber-acquires-self-driving-truck-startup-otto-for-680-million","title":{"rendered":"Uber Acquires Self-Driving Truck Startup Otto for $680 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uber-acquires-self-driving-truck-startup-otto-for-680-million.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ride-hailing giant Uber announced on Thursday that is has acquired Otto for approximately $680 million.<\/p>\n<p>All of Otto\u2019s team, which includes ex-leader of Google\u2019s self-driving project, Anthony Levandowski, will move to Uber. They will work on the company\u2019s self-driving project and report directly to CEO Travis Kalanick.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>See also:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/readwrite.com\/2016\/05\/16\/otto-wants-truckers-keep-trucking-reading-tl4\/\">Self-driving tech startup Otto wants truckers to keep on\u2026napping<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/readwrite.com\/2016\/08\/22\/uber-otto-acquisition-tl4\/\">http:\/\/readwrite.com\/2016\/08\/22\/uber-otto-acquisition-tl4\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ride-hailing giant Uber announced on Thursday that is has acquired Otto for approximately $680 million. All of Otto\u2019s team, which includes ex-leader of Google\u2019s self-driving project, Anthony Levandowski, will move to Uber. They will work on the company\u2019s self-driving project and report directly to CEO Travis Kalanick. See also: Self-driving tech startup Otto wants truckers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66454,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29300\/revisions\/66454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}