Pittsburgh’s driving the driverless future

It’s no surprise autonomous vehicle development has rooted itself firmly in Pittsburgh considering Carnegie Mellon University’s claim as the birthplace of self-driving technology…

Currently, four AV companies are testing cars on Pittsburgh public roads, and they are becoming increasingly more visible. Fifty-three percent of cyclists and 61 percent of pedestrians surveyed by BikePGH in February said they interacted with a self-driving car on the road.

And the number of people who work at the region’s AV companies is on the rise: In its 2017-2018 Inflection Point update report, the Allegheny Conference on Community Development reported a 324 percent year-over-year growth in job openings related to autonomous vehicles, with 288 job openings in the AV industry during the 12-month period recorded…

On the following pages, we check in with the companies that are driving Pittsburgh’s position as a leader in the AV revolution to see where they are at.
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