Today’s Solutions: December 19, 2025

SFist has spotted Uber’s self-driving cars on the streets of San Francisco, bearing their trademark menacing sensor array and the logo of Uber ATC, the ride-hailing behemoth’s research arm. An SFist reporter captured video of one of the vehicles in motion–barely–through SF traffic. A video posted by Eve Batey (@evelb) on Sep 3, 2016 at 10:17am PDT Get Data Sheet, Fortune’s technology newsletter. It’s unclear whether the cars are actually operating autonomously as part of…

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