{"id":207210,"date":"2017-04-18T12:54:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T10:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=207210"},"modified":"2017-04-18T12:55:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T10:55:26","slug":"another-uber-executive-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/207210-another-uber-executive-quits.html","title":{"rendered":"Another Uber executive quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uber&#8217;s vice president of global vehicle programmes,\u00a0Sherif Marakby, has resigned from the company, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autonews.com\/article\/20170417\/MOBILITY\/170419851\/uber-loses-another-top-executive-as-marakby-departs\" target=\"_blank\">Automotive News reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Marakby was head-hunted from Ford, where he had a 25-year career, to launch Uber&#8217;s self-driving cab\u00a0programme.<\/p>\n<p>Uber said his resignation\u00a0was not related to the lawsuit which\u00a0Google&#8217;s Waymo self-driving car division has brought against Uber for the alleged theft of 14,000 technical documents.<\/p>\n<p>Uber has seen several top executives leave the company recently, including its <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/206782-uber-public-relations-chief-quits.html\">head of communications<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Rachel Whetstone, president Jeff Jones, head of AI Labs Gary Marcus, and VP of growth Ed Baker.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/motoring\/206954-uber-spied-on-lyft-drivers-report.html\">Uber spied on Lyft drivers \u2014\u00a0Report<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uber&#8217;s vice president of global vehicle programmes has resigned from the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":131240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29366],"tags":[42638,20853],"class_list":["post-207210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-sherif-marakby","tag-uber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207286,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207210\/revisions\/207286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}