{"id":118087,"date":"2015-02-03T15:24:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T13:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=118087"},"modified":"2015-02-03T15:25:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T13:25:59","slug":"uber-working-on-driverless-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/118087-uber-working-on-driverless-cars.html","title":{"rendered":"Uber working on driverless cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ride-sharing service Uber is partnering with Carnegie Mellon University on a Pittsburgh research lab they say could lead to the development of driverless cars.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership announced Monday includes Uber funding for faculty chairs and graduate fellowships at the private research university.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco-based Uber says the Uber Advanced Technologies Center will also focus on mapping and safety technologies in support of its ride-sharing mission.<\/p>\n<p>Uber operates in 200 cities in 54 countries, including Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Harrisburg. It competes with Lyft and other ride-sharing startups, as well as traditional taxi and limousine services.<\/p>\n<p>Uber and Carnegie Mellon say they&#8217;ll build the new lab near the university&#8217;s National Robotics Engineering Center in the city&#8217;s Lawrenceville neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor William Peduto says the lab furthers Pittsburgh&#8217;s reputation as a center of innovation.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on driverless cars<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/113131-driverless-car-hits-230kmh.html\">Driverless car hits 230km\/h<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/117832-google-misses-earning-targets-again.html\">Google misses earning targets, again<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/116912-self-driving-cars-on-the-roads-in-2-years-google.html\">Self-driving cars on the roads in 2 years: Google<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ride-sharing service Uber is partnering with Carnegie Mellon University on a Pittsburgh research lab they say could lead to the development of driverless cars<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":83861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,23653,20853],"class_list":["post-118087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-driverless-cars","tag-uber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}