Uber plans to buy up to 24,000 self-driving cars from Volvo, marking its transition from an app used to summon a taxi to the owner and operator of a fleet of cars.
Uber has been testing prototype Volvo cars for more than a year, with safety drivers in the front seat to intervene if the self-driving system fails, in Tempe, Arizona and Pittsburgh.
The cars, in theory, would be available through the Uber app to pick up passengers without a driver. Read more at NY POST.
{Matzav.com}
Dystopian future, here we come. Full speed ahead!
Will be safer than terrorists as drivers.