Uber Prepares To Replace Those Problematic Drivers In Pittsburgh With Self Driving Vehicles

Near the end of 2014, Uber co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick flew to Pittsburgh on a mission: to hire dozens of the world’s experts in autonomous vehicles. The city is home to Carnegie Mellon University’s robotics department, which has produced many of the biggest names in the newly hot field. Sebastian Thrun, the creator of Google’s self-driving car project, spent seven years researching autonomous robots at CMU, and the project’s former director, Chris Urmson, was a CMU grad student.
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HenryN - 8/22/2016 11:26:15 AM

-5 Boost

Things didn't go terribly wrong with Tesla's Autopilot for the first 130 million miles of use, and people called for Elon Musk's head because of the driver's error/poor judgement leading to his death.

Now imagine a semi truck barreling down the freeway on autopilot with the driver napping in the cabin. The company behind this truck is a brand new company - less than a year old - with nary any known real world mileage on their AP tech. That's a scary thought!

TomM - 8/22/2016 5:08:20 PM

+2 Boost

Gee - a company whose main "pitch" was that they would provide jobs for people looking for them - by allowing them to use their own cars to provide car service to others for a fee.

Now - lets get rid of the people - and replace them with cars that drive themselves - although as yet - we still do not have a situation where it is legal for a car not to have a driver in place.