Uber launches Taxi without driver

Uber enters the unmanned car's potential market. The private taxi service operated via app opens in the USA, in Pittsburgh, the first fleet of black cars to autonomous driving. For the marked car sharing, it will be a novelty, because so far had been groups such as Google, Apple, Fiat and Ford have attempted to innovate.

It does with Volvo, although the agreement is not exclusive, and at least in this first phase a "human" controller will oversee the journey sitting in the driving seat.

Customers will require the car as always through the application of Uber and, based on a random selection, will get a car without a driver. There will also be a co-driver in the passenger seat that will take note of what happens, it will still be recorded by cameras inside and outside the vehicle. The service will be available from the end of the month.

Uber has no intention of producing large-scale own car, as stated by the co-founder and CEO Travis Kalanick, pointing instead to data collected by the app: "no one – as Kalanick explained to Bloomberg Businessweek – created software that can reliably drive a car safely without driver, we are focusing on this ".

Pittsburgh is the city – home to the robotics department at Carnegie Mellon University which has trained many of the best known names in this pioneering field.

Volvo has so far delivered a handful of vehicles on a total of 100 planned by the end of the year. But the agreement with Volvo is not exclusive: Uber tip it to make deals with other producers.