Uber brings self-driving cars to San Francisco — starting now; Cord cutting may cost you extra, and more news.
Share this using the hashtag #DailyRundown . Now you can hail a self-driving Uber in San Francisco: Yesterday we reported that San Franciscans could hail a self-driving car via Uber “very soon” — turns out that was an understatement . It’s not the first U.S. city to feature Uber’s self-driving vehicles (that honor goes to Pittsburgh, the home base for its Advanced Technologies Center), but it’s a significant step for the San Francisco-headquartered startup. Today’s expansion also debuts the XC90 self-driving car, a Volvo SUV “ outfitted with lidar , a kind of radar based on laser beams; wireless technology; and seven different cameras.” It’s Fed Day: After months of will-they-or-won’t-they speculation, today the Federal Reserve is widely expected to announce an interest rate hike. Now attention turns to the Fed’s actions in 2017: ”The message from the Fed on Wednesday is likely to be that it is too soon to know for sure,” says The Financial Times (paywall). Today’s