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Dara Khosrowshahi linked the autonomous-vehicle roadmap to commercial execution and provided a Q4 EPS outlook, after Uber reported a Q3 revenue beat.
Uber is targeting a rapid increase in the number of “fully driverless” vehicles it deploys, with CEO Dara Khosrowshahi saying the company aims to reach about 700 such vehicles by the end of the year and more than 2,000 by 2027.
The CEO framed the push as a shift in the company’s autonomous-vehicle strategy, emphasizing execution at a commercial scale rather than focusing primarily on expansion or experimentation. He also pointed to recent operating progress, noting Uber’s Q3 topline performance.
According to remarks reported by Yahoo Finance, the company’s outlook for Q4 includes earnings per share in a range of $0.95 to $0.99. The report also tied the updated expectations to Uber’s recent financial momentum after a Q3 topline beat.
In the same commentary, Khosrowshahi characterized the autonomous-vehicle effort as moving into a “commercial” phase, suggesting Uber expects driverless deployments to increasingly drive service capacity and efficiency rather than serving as purely developmental pilots.
What “fully driverless” means in this context is that no safety driver is intended to be present in the vehicle for the service Uber is offering, as opposed to systems that rely on a human operator to take over if needed. Uber did not elaborate in the reported post on specific technical milestones or operating constraints behind the targets, such as geographic limits or safety metrics.
UBER (the company’s publicly traded stock) has increasingly treated autonomous technology as both a long-term mobility strategy and a potential cost lever. By tying the roadmap to vehicle counts and near-term EPS expectations, Uber is indicating that it expects measurable business impact, not just technology advancement.
Still, the company did not provide in the reported account the schedule of deployments by city, the proportion of services covered, or whether the vehicle-count targets are based on contracts, partnerships, or direct fleet ownership arrangements. It also did not specify how it defines “fully driverless” for counting purposes, or what regulatory or operational hurdles could affect timing.
For investors and industry watchers, the next checkpoints are likely to be whether Uber discloses additional details around how the vehicles are deployed, what performance and safety benchmarks it plans to report, and how results track against the Q4 EPS range cited in the CEO’s remarks.
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