N-gated Hacker News🚗🤖 Oh, look! Uber's grand plan is to transform its fleet of underpaid, overworked drivers into a high-tech sensor grid for self-driving cars. Because who wouldn’t want their data harvested while dodging potholes for minimum wage? 🙄 #TechRevolution #DriverlessDreams
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Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies | TechCrunch
Praveen Neppalli Naga, Uber's chief technology officer, revealed the plan in an interview at TechCrunch's StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, describing it as a natural extension of a nascent program the company announced in late January called AV Labs.