- New Zealand - / - Machinery - / - NZSE:SCT Uber Stock Shock Puts 3 Autonomous Vehicle Shares On Retail Investors’ Radar Waymo’s potential split from Uber has thrown a fresh spotlight on autonomous vehicles and advanced mobility, with one news event suddenly reshaping how investors think about robotaxis, ride hailing, and the companies that support them. A 4% move in Uber’s share price on the headlines shows how quickly sentiment can adjust when partnerships crack and competition heats up. This article looks at 3 stocks exposed to the same news story, each linked to autonomous driving or supporting technologies, and walks through why some investors may see opportunity while others might prefer to stay on the sidelines. Appen (ASX:APX) Overview: Appen is an AI lifecycle company that supplies the data sourcing, human annotation, and model evaluation work that helps train and test systems such as autonomous driving, speech recognition, and other AI applications for clients across technology, automotive, finance, retail, government, and healthcare. Operations: Appen generates about A$104.1 million from Appen China and A$127.9 million from Appen Global, with additional smaller corporate revenue, supported by customers in the United States, China, Australia, and other countries. Market Cap: A$220.2 million Appen offers direct exposure to the data behind autonomous driving, as carmakers and mobility platforms need large volumes of high quality training and evaluation data to keep improving navigation and safety. Partnerships like Waymo and Uber are coming under pressure and more players are pursuing their own technology. The company’s work on multilingual audio benchmarks with Hugging Face and its relationships with 11 auto companies in China position Appen inside many of the AI programs investors are watching, but it is still loss making and heavily tied to volatile AI project spending and a concentrated set of large tech