Ottomotto
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"Otto (company)" redirects here. For other uses, see Otto (disambiguation).
Ottomotto LLC, d/b/a Otto, was an American self-driving technology company founded in January 2016 by Lior Ron and Anthony Levandowski.
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Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Automotive, technology |
Founded | January 2016 (2016-01) |
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Defunct | 2018 (2018) |
Fate | Defunct |
Headquarters | 737 Harrison, , |
Products | Self-driving kit for long-haul trucks |
Parent | Uber |
Website | ot |
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The company was based in San Francisco and employed 90 people as of August 2016. The company focused on retrofitting semi trucks with radars, cameras and laser sensors to make them capable of driving themselves. In August 2016, Otto was acquired by Uber. Lior Ron, the co-founder of the company, had stated that Otto would have self-driving fleets of trucks on the road by early 2017, which, before the company ceased, never materialized.[1]