Business Trend. Local Trend. Top 3 Concerns. Self Driving Taxis.

Pittsburgh is home to a new fleet of Uber’s self-driving taxis. For the Ying of self driving taxis, is the Yang of safety experts.

The safety concerns:

• self driving technology is not ready for primetime.
  • It’s like the safety experts think self driving taxis are the Kaepernick of transportation world. 
• PA has no self driving car statutes or regs.
  • e.g. Who do we sue if there is an accident?
• Self driving cars have gone off bridges and Pittsburgh has a lot of bridges
  • building bridges isn’t safe or good?

Governing | As Pittsburgh Gears Up to Debut Self-Driving Ubers, Safety Experts Worry

Washington Post | For some safety experts, Uber’s self-driving taxi test isn’t something to hail