By John Glenday

Uber is seeking to get behind the driving seat of the driverless car revolution by testing its first vehicle on the streets of Pittsburgh – a customised Ford Fusion bristling with radar, laser scanners and cameras.

Conducted in partnership with Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University the initiative joins an increasingly crowded field with the likes of Google and Tesla leading the way.

Uber is keen to bring down the cost of its services further and further reduce pick-up times, ambitions it believes it can attain by doing away with the expense and limitation of employing human drivers.

For the time being however Uber is Read full story ›

Source: The Drum