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uber to use self-driving cars this month first reported by Bloomberg ride-hailing service uber will offer self-driving cars to customers in downtown Pittsburgh Pennsylvania within the month of August so if you're in downtown Pittsburgh home of an Olympic champion Kurt Angle what can you expect out of a self-driving uber ride you'll be picked up by a modified volvo xc90 SUV if the car looks anything like the prototype outside of the vehicle you'll see sensors on the roof that help the card navigate inside there will be an uber engineer in the driver's seat that person is also equipped with sensors but the biological kind like eyes and ears when conditions dictate the engineer will take control of the vehicle additionally there will be another person in the passenger seat taking notes so how does a person get the privilege of being driven around by one of these fancy Volvo's riders will be provided a self-driving car at random let's see if that causes any backlash oh by the way those self-driving overrides they will be free for the time being that's it for this tech news update I'm Maya's akhtar and you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet com / update