{"id":25880,"date":"2016-05-19T13:43:45","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T20:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/this-is-our-first-good-look-at-ubers-self-driving-car"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:21:00","slug":"this-is-our-first-good-look-at-ubers-self-driving-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/this-is-our-first-good-look-at-ubers-self-driving-car","title":{"rendered":"This Is Our First Good Look at Uber\u2019s Self-Driving Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-is-our-first-good-look-at-ubers-self-driving-car.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.uber.com\/us-pennsylvania\/new-wheels\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a blog post<\/a> today, Uber showed off the self-driving car that\u2019s been stealthily cruising around Pittsburgh. The car is a<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/fords-autonomous-research-vehicle-is-actually-really-im-1751679131\"> hybrid Ford Fusion<\/a> and is currently in early stages of safety testing. This particular Uber test vehicle was first spotted almost a year ago <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/blog\/techflash\/2015\/05\/exclusive-heres-your-first-look-at-ubers-self.html?page=all\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by local Pittsburgh media<\/a>, but this is Uber\u2019s first acknowledgement of such tests.<\/p>\n<p>Uber and Google (among others) have been racing to be the first to develop self-driving taxis <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/report-uber-is-building-a-robotics-factory-for-self-dr-1683347740\">for over a year now<\/a>. Uber <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/uber-is-opening-a-robotics-lab-to-start-work-on-self-d-1683347233\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201ccleaned out\u201d Carnegie Mellon<\/a> and the National Robotics Engineering Center to be part of its Advanced Technology Center in Pittsburgh, the research arm responsible for developing this \u201clook ma, no hands\u201d technology. This heavy hiring out of Carnegie Mellon could give Uber a big boost. The Pittsburgh-based university considers itself the <a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.cmu.edu\/alumni\/magazine\/2015_spring\/self-driving_cars.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">birthplace of self-driving cars<\/a>, and it probably is. CMU researchers were <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/they-drove-cross-country-in-an-autonomous-minivan-witho-1696330141#_ga=1.123082635.1032800670.1460551066\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> testing autonomous vehicles before Google even existed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Uber also joined a coalition, this time in partnership with Google, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-autos-selfdriving-idUSKCN0XN1F1\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to advocate for self-driving adoption<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-is-our-first-good-look-at-ubers-self-driving-car-1777534830?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/this-is-our-first-good-look-at-ubers-self...socialflow<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a blog post today, Uber showed off the self-driving car that\u2019s been stealthily cruising around Pittsburgh. The car is a hybrid Ford Fusion and is currently in early stages of safety testing. This particular Uber test vehicle was first spotted almost a year ago by local Pittsburgh media, but this is Uber\u2019s first acknowledgement [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61772,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25880\/revisions\/61772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}