NEWSFLASH: Uber’s First Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month

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It's happening

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.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-08-18/uber-s-first-self-driving-fleet-arrives-in-pittsburgh-this-month-is06r7on

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But there's still a big difference if we will drive cars manually, it's still more safer compared to automatic driving.

For now, but things will change and they will change rapidly. We can stick a driver in the front seat for now in case of something going wrong, but in the next 10-20 years I suspect this will be unnecessary. The vast majority of accidents that happen with driverless vehicles right now are caused by the people who are manually driving. Sure there have been some flukes, but as the tech gets better those flukes will go to near zero.

oh yes