--- title: Uber Is Testing Driverless Cars in This West Coast City Now description: Social media users spotted evidence of an Uber test of driverless cars in San Francisco. authors: - name: Martha C. White role: Writer url: https://money.com/author/martha-c-white/ education: BA, English, Princeton University at_money_since: 2015 articles: 350 covers: - Technology - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Debt - Economy and Politics - Education - Federal Reserve Rate Cuts - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes published: '2016-09-22T21:34:06.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T03:50:49.000Z' section: Technology tags: - Autonomous Cars - Autopilot - pubdesk - self-driving cars - Uber - Uber service word_count: 241 canonical: https://money.com/uber-driverless-cars-san-francisco/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![160920_EM_UberSelfDriving](https://img.money.com/2016/09/160920_em_uberselfdriving.jpg?crop=0px%2C219px%2C2100px%2C1182px&quality=85) *A group of self driving Uber vehicles position themselves to take journalists on rides during a media preview at Uber's Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh, Monday, Sept. 12, 2016.* Self-driving Uber cars are hitting the road in San Francisco, although they're not going to be ferrying you home after a night on the town just yet. Sharp-eyed Twitter users spotted the vehicles roaming around some of San Francisco's downtown neighborhoods this week, [TechCrunch reports](https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/21/self-driving-uber-vehicles-spotted-on-the-streets-of-san-francisco/), prompting speculation that the company was expanding its self-driving program. Recently, Uber kicked up social media buzz in Pittsburgh when it [introduced](https://money.com/self-driving-uber-pittsburgh/) a fleet self-driving cars there. Uber is working with Ford, Volvo — with which it has a $300 million partnership to work on self-driving cars — and researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. Uber is also testing autonomous driving technology in Singapore, as well, and Uber rival Lyft also is [working](https://time.com/4495768/lyft-cofounder-john-zimmer-self-driving-cars/) on driverless cars. Those self-driving cars currently tooling around San Francisco can't be summoned for a ride right now, though. “A handful of cars equipped with advanced driver safety and self-driving technology are now being tested in the Bay Area," an Uber spokesperson told TechCrunch, adding that the cars were for "internal research." ***Read More: [Self-Driving Ubers Just Hit the Streets in Pittsburgh](https://money.com/self-driving-uber-pittsburgh/)*** Although autopilot has been suspected as a factor in [two](https://money.com/tesla-autopilot-death/) fatal [crashes](https://money.com/tesla-autopilot-crash-model-s/) of Tesla Model S vehicles equipped with the technology, the technology appears to be poised to grow. This week, Jeffrey Zients, director of the White House's National Economic Council, said vehicles equipped with autonomous driving features “will save time, money and lives," according to the [*New York Times*](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/technology/self-driving-cars-guidelines.html). ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/uber-driverless-cars-san-francisco/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Technology", "item": "https://money.com/technology/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "GPS", "item": "https://money.com/gps/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Uber Is Testing Driverless Cars in This West Coast City Now" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/uber-driverless-cars-san-francisco/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/uber-driverless-cars-san-francisco/", "name": "Uber Is Testing Driverless Cars in This West Coast City Now", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2016-09-22T21:34:06.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/uber-driverless-cars-san-francisco/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/uber-driverless-cars-san-francisco/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-17T03:50:49.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Uber Is Testing Driverless Cars in This West Coast City Now", "articleSection": "Technology", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2016/09/160920_em_uberselfdriving.jpg?crop=0px%2C219px%2C2100px%2C1182px&quality=85", "width": 1012, "height": 569, "caption": "160920_EM_UberSelfDriving" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martha C. 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