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05-26-2017, 04:03 PM
Uber uses a di**saur to show how you'd control a self-driving car with a smartphone
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Why just hail a self-driving car with your smartphone when you can control one, too?*
That may soon be an option if Uber has its way.*
SEE ALSO: Uber is losing a ton — and we mean a ton — of money (http://mashable.com/2017/04/14/uber-still-losing-money-but-growing-quickly/)
As detailed by a patent application (http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=20170147959.PGNR.) published May 25, the company envisions a system that allows a rider to "instruct the auto**mous vehicle to perform one or more **n-driving operations" via a "mobile computing device."
That's right, only **n-driving maneuvers are on the table here. So **, you won't be able to steer the self-driving car with your smartphone. But why would you want to, anyway? If your goal was to drive a car, you wouldn't be in an auto**mous Uber.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/25/uber-self-driving-car-auto**mous-app/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Why just hail a self-driving car with your smartphone when you can control one, too?*
That may soon be an option if Uber has its way.*
SEE ALSO: Uber is losing a ton — and we mean a ton — of money (http://mashable.com/2017/04/14/uber-still-losing-money-but-growing-quickly/)
As detailed by a patent application (http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=20170147959.PGNR.) published May 25, the company envisions a system that allows a rider to "instruct the auto**mous vehicle to perform one or more **n-driving operations" via a "mobile computing device."
That's right, only **n-driving maneuvers are on the table here. So **, you won't be able to steer the self-driving car with your smartphone. But why would you want to, anyway? If your goal was to drive a car, you wouldn't be in an auto**mous Uber.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/25/uber-self-driving-car-auto**mous-app/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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