<story><title>Uber’s self-driving cars start picking up passengers in San Francisco</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/ubers-self-driving-cars-start-picking-up-passengers-in-san-francisco/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>bigtones</author><text>Actually these Uber Volvo self driving cars have been picking up passengers using UberX in San Francisco for weeks. They&amp;#x27;re easy to spot because they have a huge lidar contraption on the roof and a lot of camera&amp;#x27;s mounted on the roof, rear vision mirrors, and the rear tailgate of the vehicle. The depot they use is on Harrison and 3rd so you see a lot of them driving around the area just south of Market Street, which has a lot of traffic obstacles, construction, and pedestrians. They go very slow and stop often out of an abundance of caution, much to the consternation of impatient SF drivers behind them.</text></comment>
<story><title>Uber’s self-driving cars start picking up passengers in San Francisco</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/ubers-self-driving-cars-start-picking-up-passengers-in-san-francisco/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>autotune</author><text>How is this going to combat people who make a mess inside the vehicle after going 100 percent without human drivers&amp;#x2F;test engineers? If it picks up a drunk person at 3 AM who then throws up inside the car, is it vomit-aware and knows it needs a cleaning before picking up the next passenger?</text></comment>