Uber testing program to let drivers earn money doing AI-related tasks

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However, Khosrowshahi emphasized that human drivers remain critical for ￰18￱ pointed out that Uber’s service is growing so rapidly that the company will need more human drivers and delivery workers for at least the next five to seven ￰19￱ company has already begun operating vehicles without drivers through its collaboration with Waymo, which is owned by Google’s parent ￰20￱ recently disclosed that it’s speaking with banks and private investment firms about securing money to grow its automated taxi ￰21￱ rider preference expands to more cities Along with the new earning option, Uber rolled out its female rider preference feature to more ￰22￱ service, which first launched in July, now works in Baltimore, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland, Oregon, and Washington, ￰23￱ matches women drivers with women passengers when ￰24￱ noted that in places where the option already exists worldwide, female drivers have chosen to use it on more than 100 million ￰25￱ company also announced two other changes for all drivers on Thursday.

First, every driver can now block passengers with low ￰26￱ can adjust what minimum rating they’ll accept and change these settings for different times during the day or night. Second, Uber introduced what it calls a delayed ride ￰27￱ a trip runs more than five minutes over the original time estimate, drivers will receive extra ￰28￱ noted that riders might see higher charges in some cases, depending on whether the delay happened due to traffic conditions or because the passenger added more stops along the ￰29￱ up to $30,050 in trading rewards when you join Bybit today