Toyota pours $500 mn into driverless car tie-up with Uber

Toyota will pump about $500 million into ride-share firm Uber as part of a deal to work together on mass-producing self-driving vehicles, the Japanese car giant said on Tuesday.The deal, which reportedly values Uber at about $72 billion, aims at "advancing and bringing to market autonomous ride-sharing as a mobility service at scale", Toyota said in a statement.Analysts said the move showed Toyota was motoring full speed ahead towards a driverless car future, in a race involving the world's top