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		</div><p>Ride-hailing service Uber has become the first company to make self-driving cars available to the public in the US through a test in Pittsburgh.<br />
The company offered a selection of customers free trips in autonomous Ford Fusion vehicles to help them get to their destination. Human drivers sat in the front of the car as a back up to the technology.</p>
<p>Taylor Pollier, 27, was given a ride to his bartending job and said it “felt sharp” and “like taking an Uber any other day”.</p>
<p>The Uber cars use seven traffic-light detecting cameras, a radar system for detecting different weather conditions and 20 spinning lasers which generate a continuous, 360-degree 3-D map of the surrounding environment. </p>
<p>The tests required two engineers to sit in the vehicle, one as a back-up driver and the other taking notes on the vehicle’s software.</p>
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<p>Raffi Krikorian, director of the Uber Advanced Technologies Centre, said of the Pittsburgh test: “That pilot really pushes the ball forward for us. </p>
<p>We think it can help with congestion and can make transportation cheaper and more accessible for the vast majority of people.”</p>
<p>If the cars prove they can handle all the terrain and weather Pittsburgh offers, which are notoriously tricky with snowstorms and rolling hills, it would be a huge step step forward for the technology.</p>
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<p>“We actually think of Pittsburgh as the double black diamond of driving. If we can really tackle Pittsburgh, then we have a better chance of tackling most other cities around the world.”</p>
<p>Since the Pittsburgh service launched the company has said none of the six self-driving vehicles have had an accident.</p>
<p>The first public test globally of self-driving vehicles was in Singapore only three weeks ago when NuTonomy allowed members of the public to use self-driving taxis.</p>
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