To catch up, Uber spent $680 million — roughly 1 percent of the company’s value — to buy Otto and its team of robotics veterans. Based in San Francisco, Uber has also poured millions of dollars into hiring hundreds of employees and spent more than 18 months getting the Advanced Technologies Center here in Pittsburgh, the home of its self-driving initiative, off the ground. One lingering question over the effort is how driverless cars affect…
Our reporter goes for a spin in a self-driving Uber car
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