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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operation, Consideration, Voting Rights Acquired, Percent

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operation, Equity Interest Received, Fair Value

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operation, Equity Percentage To Be Purchased

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operations, Additional Equity Interest Received, Diluted

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operations, Additional Investment

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operations, Consideration, Convertible Notes Receivable, Term

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operations, Consideration, Fully-Diluted Ownership Interest, Percent

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operations, Consideration, Undiluted Ownership Interest, Percent

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operations, Equity Interest Received, Basic

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operations, Equity Interest Received, Diluted

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Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operations, Liability Recognized For Future Obligations

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Disposal Group, RSU's Transferred During Disposal, Vesting Terms

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Noncontrolling Interest, Decrease From Disposal

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Seats Held On The Board Of Directors

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Amount of consideration received or receivable for the disposal of assets and liabilities, including discontinued operation.

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Amount before tax of gain (loss) recognized on the sale or disposal of a disposal group. Excludes discontinued operations.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 360
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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The cash inflow associated with the amount received from the sale of a portion of the company's business, for example a segment, division, branch or other business, during the period.

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Divestitures - Narrative (Details) $ in Millions				1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
Divestitures - Narrative (Details) $ in Millions	Jan. 19, 2021 USD ($)	May 07, 2020 USD ($) seat	Jan. 21, 2020 USD ($)	Jan. 31, 2019 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2020 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2020 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2021 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2020 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($)
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Gain on business divestitures, net							$ (1,684)	$ (204)	$ 0
Neutron Holdings, Inc. dba Lime
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Number of seats held on the board of directors \| seat		1
Variable Interest Entity, Not Primary Beneficiary
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Percentage of voting rights acquired			9.99%
Not Discontinued Operations \| Aurora
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Fair value of common shares received							$ 1,277
Not Discontinued Operations \| Lion City Rentals
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Equity percentage to be purchased				100.00%
Fair value of consideration received, cash				$ 310
Contingent consideration				$ 33
Not Discontinued Operations \| Uber Eats India
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Term of note receivable			4 years
Other receivable value			$ 35
Gain on business divestitures, net						$ (154)		$ (154)
Not Discontinued Operations \| Uber Eats India \| Variable Interest Entity, Not Primary Beneficiary
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Investment value			$ 171
Not Discontinued Operations \| JUMP Divestiture
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Gain on business divestitures, net					$ 27
Not Discontinued Operations \| JUMP Divestiture \| Neutron Holdings, Inc. dba Lime
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Fully-diluted ownership interest (in percent)							31.00%
Consideration - convertible note receivable		$ 85
Conversion rate for convertible note receivable (in percent)		20.00%
Term of note receivable		2 years
Not Discontinued Operations \| JUMP Divestiture \| Neutron Holdings, Inc. dba Lime \| Common Stock
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Fully-diluted ownership interest (in percent)							10.00%
Undiluted ownership interest (in percent)							22.00%
Not Discontinued Operations \| Apparate USA LLC
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Contingent consideration							$ 2,019
Gain on business divestitures, net							(1,644)
Derecognition of ATG Business' non-controlling interests	$ 1,100						1,057
Vesting period	12 months
Liability recognized for future obligations	$ 315						$ 315
Not Discontinued Operations \| Apparate USA LLC \| Aurora
Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Additional Disclosures by Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations [Line Items]
Fair value of common shares received	$ 1,300
Percentage of fully diluted common shares	22.00%
Percentage of undiluted shares	25.00%
Additional investment	$ 400
Percent of fully diluted convertible preferred shares	4.00%
Percent of undiluted convertible preferred shares	5.00%