While Google, Apple, Tesla and the big car are working more or less secretly for years in the development of driverless cars with a few significant innovations Uber surpasses all and, surprisingly, announces the launch of a fleet of Uber car completely autonomous.
HIRE WITHOUT DRIVER. Yes you read right: the next Uber car that will pick you up at the airport
or station may not have the driver. The service will be activated by the end of the month on an experimental basis in the American city of Pittsburgh.
The car chosen for the tests of the Volvo SUV equipped with everything you need to be able to travel alone. On board the vehicle will still present a technician able to intervene in case of need and an assistant who will take note of everything that happens along the way.
The robotic fleet will consist of 90 cars and who you book a run, the deal will give luck will not even pay the cost of the trip, which will be offered by the company.
The unexpected announcement was made on 18 August to Bloomberg by the Travis Kalanick, CEO of Uber.
SHOPPING HI-TECH. Unlike other companies Uber chose not to internally develop their car without a driver but to buy the technology needed by a specialized company.
Recently Uber has acquired Otto, a promising start-up that has developed a kit can make autonomous trucks and can be adapted to work on SUVs and sedans.
The experiment of Uber is definitely one of the most sophisticated seen to date in this area: if all goes as announced by the company in a few months we will know if the future of the car without a driver is a bit 'closer.
THE FUTURE IS ALREADY HERE. The experiment of Uber, however, will not be the first ever. A taxi service with car autonomous driving has already debuted in Singapore. One of the founders of nuTonomy, the startup that launched, there is also an Italian professor at MIT, Emilio Franzoli.
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