The autonomous vehicle sector was rocked this week when Lucid Group ( LCID) announced a three-way partnership with Uber Technologies ( NYSE: UBER) and privately held Nuro to deploy at least 20,000 Lucid Gravity SUVs equipped with Nuro's L4 autonomous technology on the Uber (NYSE: UBER) network over the next six years.

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Uber collaborates with Lucid and Nuro to launch a fleet of 20,000 autonomous robotaxis by 2025, aiming to compete with Waymo and Tesla in the US market.