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Arizona residents can now be one of Google's crash test dummies I mean one of Google's self-driving safety specialists Google is hiring people in Arizona to sit in a self-driving car for six to eight hours a day collecting data for the engineering team and the pay isn't too shabby you get 20 bucks an hour to babysit the latest road robots according to a report from the Arizona Republic newspaper google posted the job opening online and it requires you to type at least 40 words per minute since you'll be taking notes with daily reports google has about twenty three of these converted Lexus SUVs on the road now in areas of California Washington Texas and now Arizona there's still a need for humans to sit behind the wheel to take over while bugs get worked out Apple is also taking steps to expand into the auto business although Apple has not talked about its self-driving car ambitions Apple has just invested 1 billion dollars in a Chinese ride-sharing company called DD choosing DD is a big rival tuber as the largest car hailing app in China it shows how Apple is expanding beyond hardware to grow it's becoming more of a services focused company after all iphone sales aren't exactly growing these days that's it for this tech news update I'm Bridget Carey and you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet com / update