Uber Hopes to Buy Half A Million Self-Driving Cars from Tesla

Self-driving cars are no longer an invention for the distant future.  Many automakers are planning on putting a self-driving car on sale sometime within this year, including Tesla, a luxury electric car brand. Tesla’s autonomous car isn’t on the market yet, but Uber, the ride-sharing taxi company, is already a huge fan. So huge, in fact, that Uber CEO Travis Kalanick plans on buying every single autonomous car Tesla makes by 2020. That’s 500,000 electric cars.

Kalanick believes self-driving cars are safer than most human drivers, can reduce the number of taxis in busy cities, and can prove to be more efficient for Uber patrons.

But can these cars truly be self-driving? Tesla is in the first phase of testing their “autopilot” technology.  They plan to develop the technology so the car can be summoned from a garage to meet its owner.

Would you trust a car with no driver?