How Uber is helping steer the future of self-driving cars

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Uber released its first fleet of self-driving cars in Pittsburgh on Wednesday.

Uber released its first fleet of self-driving cars in Pittsburgh on Wednesday. For now, they are also equipped with a human technician. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Alex Davies of Wired Magazine -- a journalist who took a ride in one of the new cars -- about his experience, why Uber chose Pittsburgh and the future of self-driving cars.

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