Uber to launch driverless car service in Pittsburgh
Uber is testing a driverless taxi on the streets of Pittsburgh Uber said Thursday it would deploy driverless cars for its ride-sharing services in Pittsburgh this month, pushing the envelope for the use of self-driving technology. Uber said the program would begin with the cars carrying company “co-pilots,” engineers and safety personnel, after testing the cars in the western Pennsylvania city without passengers for months. At the same time, Uber also announced Thursday two other moves to further solidify itself as a trailblazer in driverless cars: It established a $300 million venture with Chinese-owned, Sweden-based Volvo Cars to develop self-driving cars for sale by 2021 Uber is buying Otto, a San Francisco startup developing self-driving commercial trucks “Together, we now have one of the strongest autonomous engineering groups in the world; self-driving trucks and cars that are already on the road thanks to Otto and Uber’s Advanced Technologies Center ...