Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman — who disclosed in a Thursday (April 17) post on X that the firm owns a 19.8% stake Hertz — said in the post that Hertz and Uber would be ideal partners to roll out a fleet of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Calling the idea a “fun thought experiment,” Ackman said in the post that such a partnership would bring together Hertz’s fleet of 500,000 vehicles, expertise in vehicle maintenance and 11,200 locations globally with Uber’s ability to improve the utilization and profitability ...