Uber To Bring First Fleet Of Self-Driving Cars To Pittsburgh

(FILE) - An archive picture, dated 3 June 2014, shows the logo of ride sharing service 'Uber' in the lobby area of one of the branch offices of Uber in San Francisco, USA. Controversial ride sharing service Uber ha... (FILE) - An archive picture, dated 3 June 2014, shows the logo of ride sharing service 'Uber' in the lobby area of one of the branch offices of Uber in San Francisco, USA. Controversial ride sharing service Uber has expanded its services to 24 new cities worldwide. Photo by: Christoph Dernbach/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images MORE LESS
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DETROIT (AP) — Ride-hailing service Uber says it will start hauling passengers with self-driving cars on the streets of Pittsburgh in next several weeks.

The company says the autonomous Ford Fusions will have human backup drivers but will transport passengers just like normal Uber vehicles.

Uber has a self-driving research lab in Pittsburgh and is working on autonomous technology.

Also Thursday, Uber and Volvo announced a $300 million deal for Volvo to provide SUVs to Uber for autonomous vehicle research. Eventually the Volvo SUVs will be part of the self-driving fleet in Pittsburgh.

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  1. That’s great. But your new logo is still stupid.

  2. Not exactly self driving cars

  3. Self driving cars that require an operator to sit in the driver’s seat and oversee the operation of the vehicle is not really a self-driving car.

  4. Avatar for yskov yskov says:

    Traffic jams! Unless they have improved on Google’s left turn algorithm or are driving more stupid.

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