The First Image of Uber’s Self Driving Car

on May 22, 2015 at 8:20 am

Uber’s quickly expanding service has been setting up shop in Pittsburgh where it now has it’s Advanced Technologies Center. Not much has caught the attention of Pittsburgh residents from the Advanced Tech Center– well until now.

Uber has started releasing it’s self driving cars into the streets for testing. Although they haven’t officially announced it to the city, they aren’t really hiding it either. The car has the words “Uber Advanced Technologies Center” written on the side and a huge device which seems to be sensors and cameras on the hood.

“This vehicle is part of our early research efforts regarding mapping, safety and autonomy systems,” Uber spokeswoman Trina Smith has been recorded as stating. The company has been very honest and forward about their actions in Pittsburgh, announcing early on that the center would focus on mapping and autonomous technology. At this point it’s a race to see who can take the market first, Uber or Google.

Source: The Pittsburgh Times

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Angel started writing at a young age keeping a journal since he was 12 years old. By the time he was 15 he had a binder overflowing with ideas. His senior year of high school he received a scholarship for his writing in English and an award for writing and directing a full length movie for his film club. At 19 he went to film school in LA with a focus on screenwriting where he wrote a series of shorts. He is a futurist and keeps up to date about current tech, especially automation. He is currently studying Computer Science in Berkeley and interested in writing code and working with hardware. Some interesting facts: He knows too much about Google, loves cats, and has one white cat named Nasa.