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Title: Uber's first autonomous car goes out for a test drive Post by: HCK on May 24, 2015, 09:00:11 pm Uber's first autonomous car goes out for a test drive
<article> <section class="page"> <p> If everything goes according to Uber’s master plan, pretty soon you won’t have to sit through having to make small talk with a human when you take one of their rides.</p><p> The ride-sharing giant has set up a research and development outpost in Pittsburgh (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2906532/ubers-hiring-plans-show-outlines-of-selfdriving-car-project.html), and its first project has already driven itself off the lot for a test drive. Uber now has an autonomous car.</p><p> The modified Ford vehicle spotted in the wild had an Uber logo on the side and a large Back to the Future-looking device on top when it was first spotted driving around Pittsbugh on May 13. Uber quickly confirmed that the car was the work of the company’s Advanced Technologies Center to experiment with the use of robotics in transportation.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2925651/ubers-first-autonomous-car-goes-out-for-a-test-drive.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Uber's first autonomous car goes out for a test drive (http://www.macworld.com/article/2925651/ubers-first-autonomous-car-goes-out-for-a-test-drive.html#tk.rss_all) |