Uber will introduce a fleet of about 100 self-driving cars in Pittsburgh within days, each with a human monitor in the driver’s seat.
This is not just a test of the technology. It’s also a demonstration of “greenlight governing,” i.e., giving tech companies help and lots of freedom. Pittsburgh officials helped Uber lease riverfront land for a testing track and warded off new state regulations.
“You can either put up red tape or roll out the red carpet,” the mayor said. “If you want to be a 21st-century laboratory for technology, you put out the carpet.”
The City of Austin recently kicked Uber out of town over arbitrary municipal regulations. As a result drunk driving has spiked & lives lost.
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