is to invest $500 million in uber as part of a push to develop self—driving cars. mass—producing autonomous vehicles for uber‘s ride—sharing network could help both firms catch up in the competitive driverless car market. katie silver is in singapore. toyota and uber have worked together already, toyota seems to be keen to make even more progress. they both sound keen for the progress and that is because the deal is being billed asa win is because the deal is being billed as a win for both. it will allow them to catch up in the very competitive self driving vehicle space. they are lagging behind at the moment competitors owned by google's parent company, alphabet. they will share the costs of research and development. uber spend... it will cut the costs. uber really needs it. we saw in march,