“You can either put up red tape or roll out the red carpet,” Bill Peduto, the mayor of Pittsburgh, said in September of opening its proverbial doors to Uber’s driverless car program.
“If you want to be a 21st-century laboratory for technology, you put out the carpet.”
After three-quarters of a year living life in the lab — Pittsburgh, it seems, has lost some of the love when it comes to being the home of Uber’s driverless pilot. As it turns out, working with Uber has not gone as expected.