https://www.recode.net/2017/11/20/16679416/uber-volvo-car-self-driving-ride-relationship-apple-didi-lyft

Ride-sharing services and self-driving cars are both complicated — and not just the technology that enables them. Putting them together is even more difficult. That’s why there are so many relationships between self-driving and ride-sharing companies as they pair up to share technology, money and size.

Just today, Volvo announced it is strengthening ties to Uber by agreeing to sell the ride-sharing company 24,000 self-driving SUVs.