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Toyota is investing $500-million more in Uber, underscoring the Japanese car maker’s efforts to catch up on self-driving technology as General Motors and Waymo lead the race to upend transportation with autonomous vehicles.

Electric buses were seen as a joke at an industry conference in Belgium seven years ago when the Chinese manufacturer BYD showed an early model. “Everyone was laughing at BYD for making a toy,” recalled

Toyota, which has made a big bet on hydrogen-powered cars, is looking more isolated as industry rivals double down on plug-in electric vehicles as the dominant technology in the emerging post-fossil fuel era. Three years ago, Toyota