<P> In December 2014, Uber expanded the UberPool concept to New York City . </P> <P> In 2015, Kalanick spoke about his desire to eventually move to using self - driving cars for Uber vehicles . By May 2015, the company had hired many researchers from the robotics department of Carnegie Mellon University and established Uber's Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh's Strip District . </P> <P> On September 14, 2016, Uber launched its first self - driving car services to select customers in Pittsburgh, including Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto using a fleet of Ford Fusion cars each equipped with 20 cameras, seven lasers, GPS, lidar and radar equipment that enables the car to create a three - dimensional map utilizing landmarks and other contextual information to keep track of its position . </P> <P> On December 14, 2016, Uber began using self - driving Volvo XC90 SUVs in its hometown of San Francisco . On December 21, 2016, the California Department of Motor Vehicles revoked the registration of the 16 vehicles Uber was using for the test and forced the program to cease operations in California . Uber then moved the program to Arizona, where the cars are picking up passengers, albeit with 2 Uber engineers in the front seats as a safety precaution . In March 2017, an Uber self - driving car was flipped on its side by a vehicle which failed to yield . </P>

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