Uber orders a huge fleet of Mercedes S-class sedans

Uber has ordered at least 100,000 Mercedes S-class sedans to provide its users a very high quality service

Uber technologies’ entire claim to fame is its purported capability to cut down its local cab service’s prices. Of course, one has upmarket options if he wants to look fancy such as UberBlack, which offers ride at a greater fare for a more luxurious and roomier ride. But a report has revealed that the cmpany may be aiming to become fancier, by buying 100,000 Mercedes-Benz S-Class luxury sedans.

As per reports of Reuters, a long-term order has been placed by the company with Diamler AG to the tune of "at least 100,000" S-Class sedans. Each of those German vehicles cost something around $100,000 each which makes it possibly a $10 billion contract.

Of course, the transporter will probably benefit from any kind of a fleet pricing incentive, but yet even if the company is purchasing each vehicle for at least $50,000, that yet adds up to a $5 billion contract.

This raises a question: Just exactly what the cab company has  seen in all of those Mercedes sedans? Reuters has indicated that  the transporter has been purchasing around aiming to order a large number of fully autonomous vehicles, as reported by German publication Der Spiegel has mentioned that founder and CEO of Uber Travis Kalanick was only interested in self-driving vehicles.

With that stated, now the flagship vehicle of Mercedes is just capable of being semi-autonomously driven for short stints; it’s expected that a entirely autonomous automobile would not be ready up till at least 2020, whether its manufactured by Mercedes Benz or another automobile manufacturer.

The deal was disclosed to Germany based news source Manager Magazin by sources at Diamler and Uber, but none of them was interested in commenting to Reuters on the issue, although the original report by Reuters is now containing an update from another inside source which denies that the deal has been signed.

The interest of the organization  in driverless automobiles can be easily understood. Despite of its high market valuation, the company has never earned a profit as it burned cash astonishingly, elimination of human driving partners would remove the only actual cost of the organization, paying its contracted drivers.

Hence Travis stated he would purchase each and every car manufactured by Tesla Motors provided that they were entirely autonomous. Up till then, one should not be surprised if he or she has hailed an Uber and a branded new-S-Class comes to pick him or her.

In other news, as per reports of Engadget the transporter has added 1 way trips from the Californian city San Diego to US neighboring country Mexico. If one wants to be transported to Tijuana while he or she in San Diego, then he or she can avail the Passport service offered by the company.