(New York) Uber, wishing to be more than a platform for ordering a car or a meal, presented on Monday a series of new options to facilitate the organization of stays, to reserve a minibus or to test delivery by robots autonomous.
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The idea is to help customers “go anywhere and get anything,” group boss Dara Khosrowshahi, who is also seeking to curb company spending, said in a message. to improve profitability.
“There are many points of intersection between simple transportation and other needs,” detailed Jen You, product manager in Uber’s transportation division, during a press briefing.
At a time when consumers are coming out of more or less two years of the pandemic, “we want to become (the) daily point of contact for travel, work, meetings or even (the) small personal errands”, she said. underline.
With “Uber Travel”, for example, accessible to customers with a Gmail account, a traveler landing at the airport can order a meal with Uber Eats and have it delivered directly to the hotel.
This new feature involves letting Uber automatically connect to the user’s Gmail account and pull all relevant information from it, about flight, hotel or restaurant reservations.
It will be available from Monday in the United States, in the coming weeks in Canada and this summer in the United Kingdom, where customers will also be able to buy train tickets and reserve cars on the Uber app.
From this summer in the United States, it will also be possible to reserve a minibus for a private or professional event on the Uber application.
Uber, which has set itself the goal of achieving “carbon neutrality” by 2030 in Europe and North America, has also gathered on a new page of its app for drivers, information on electric vehicles and incentives. existing finances.
The group has also included the location of the nearest electric charging stations in its road maps.
The platform will also launch two autonomous delivery pilot projects in Los Angeles, with Serve Robotics robots moving alone on sidewalks and with Motional’s fleet of autonomous cars.