The End of Human Driving? with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi | On With Kara Swisher

What It Covers

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi explains how AI powers every aspect of Uber's business and why autonomous vehicles will eventually replace human drivers within twenty years.

Key Questions Answered

• •Developer Productivity: 90% of Uber's engineers use AI coding tools like Cursor, making them 30% more productive while the company hires more engineers rather than reducing headcount.
• •Customer Service Automation: Pure AI solutions work better than human-AI hybrid approaches when the cost of mistakes is low, with general guidelines outperforming strict rule-based systems.
• •AV Partnership Strategy: Uber partners with 20+ autonomous vehicle companies rather than building cars themselves, focusing on maximizing utilization through their demand network like Marriott with hotels.
• •Safety-First AV Transition: Autonomous vehicles will be 50 times safer than humans but society expects perfection from robots while accepting 35,000 annual human driving fatalities in America.