By Mike Butler | East Valley Tribune
Don’t look now, but those odd-looking hybrid Ford Fusions zipping around East Valley streets with Pennsylvania license plates are definitely Uber self-driving cars.
The ride-hailing company confirmed by email Wednesday that several mapping cars from its Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh are currently in Phoenix gathering data. There are drivers behind the wheel monitoring the operation of the vehicles, which carry an array of radar, lasers, scanners and high-resolution cameras on the roof.