Private hire company Uber is apparently testing an autonomous car on the streets of Pittsburgh.
The company says it’s a Ford Fusion hybrid with all of the key items in the self-driving recipe book – laser scanners, high-res cameras, radar arrays.
A trained driver must sit behind the wheel in the early stages of the testing while it, says Uber, ensures the technology is safe.
The company announced a partnership with Carnegie Mellon University last year, and has since opened a tech centre run by one of the university’s former robotics
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