PITTSBURGH — Call it a leap of faith. In algorithms. And radar. And sensors. Getting behind the wheel of a self-driving car for the first time falls somewhere on the spectrum between frightening ...

Uber is plowing ahead with its ambitious plan to make self-driving cars a reality. The company will run an experiment in Pittsburgh, rolling out the first-ever self-driving fleet that's available ...

Uber on Wednesday became the first company to make self-driving cars available to the general public in the U.S. through a test program in Pittsburgh. The ride-hailing service selected a group of ...

Beginning Wednesday, the cars will be deployed on Pittsburgh's streets in a striking experiment by Uber to introduce self-driving technology to its passengers. "For me this is really important ...

The ride-hailing behemoth announced in a blog post Thursday that it has begun testing a self-driving car in Pittsburgh, home of the company's nascent Advanced Technologies Center. The car ...

Beginning today, a select group of Pittsburgh Uber users will get a surprise the next time they request a pickup: the option to ride in a self driving car. The announcement comes a year-and-a-half ...

Nearly every time, the answer was: "The car did that." Indeed, my time as a passenger in the self-driving Uber as it drove around downtown Pittsburgh was blessedly uneventful -- and in that ...

Self-driving Ubers in Pittsburgh still have a driver up front, even if that person doesn’t have their hands on the wheel at all times. The cars are loaded with multiple cameras and other ...

because Pittsburgh is obviously the No. 1 place for self-driving cars. So I decided to challenge the Chronicle and the Bay Area with five reasons why I thought Pittsburgh was still No. 1 for self ...

When Pittsburgh residents begin riding in Uber Technologies Inc.’s self-driving cars on Wednesday, they may find the robots operate like driver’s-ed students. On Monday, autonomous Ford ...