Uber Is Now Introducing Autonomous Rides For Passengers

You will now be able to use a self-driving taxi service, with early tests being under human supervision
Uber Is Now Introducing Autonomous Rides For Passengers

Making its debut in Pittsburgh, Uber is introducing autonomous Volvo XC90s into its fleet for testing as a viable option for the company. The modified Volvos - which have been developed by the same people that worked on the Google Car - will be accompanied by human supervisors during the trial.

The main goal for the company is to see the one million human Uber drivers replaced by their robot counterparts in the next few years, as the removal of a human from driving is apparently a ‘natural progression’ for the company.

Summoning the automated cars via the mobile app, customers won’t have to put up with any awkward taxi driver chat and will instead sit back and let the radar-guided vehicle transport them to their destination.

Uber Is Now Introducing Autonomous Rides For Passengers

100 cars are to be produced by the end of the year after a $300 million deal between Volvo and Uber. With Tesla already producing self-driving cars and Ford announcing its plans to develop a similar system in the near future, it seems like the ‘chore’ of driving is slowly being wiped from the face of the Earth.

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Comments

Mike deluca

So live in Pittsburgh…didnt know half this stuff! Go volvo!…oh and i guess uber too…

08/24/2016 - 03:30 |
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Rajkumar

Damn f*

08/24/2016 - 11:11 |
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Anonymous

Remember what happened to the last friendly car related robot to land in Pennsylvania?

08/24/2016 - 13:29 |
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Anonymous

This will be great for kidnappers to take you to a remote area.

08/25/2016 - 02:09 |
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The S2K Guy

BEHOLD. THE AGE OF SMART (no not the smart fortwo or whatever) CARS HAVE BEGUN

08/25/2016 - 06:03 |
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Dominic Angelico

Pfft, autonomous cars are for people who can’t drive

In all seriousness though disabled people also need them

08/25/2016 - 09:23 |
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DATSWEDISHHORSEPOWER

I heard Ford tho. Cp24 must be stupid tho

08/25/2016 - 13:13 |
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ferrarman11

That destroys the whole point of drivers signing up and earning money

08/27/2016 - 15:24 |
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Anonymous

Hope there is no bug, because we know….

08/29/2016 - 09:08 |
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Anonymous

Great, self driving tanks now, humanity is getting dumber and dumber, judgement day is getting closer.

Lets hope some rogue arnold schwarzenegger is gonna come save us

09/07/2016 - 15:28 |
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