If you’ve thought about signing up to become an Uber driver, you’d better do it fast — the taxi-alternative giant appears to be on the brink of starting to replace its vast army of drivers with a fleet of driverless cars. Uber Technologies has signed a $300 million agreement with Volvo to develop and produce a sport-utility vehicle that will be used as a self-driving taxi, or sold to consumers, according to the Wall Street Journal. The goal, as Bloomberg News reports, is to replace as quickly as possible Uber’s more than 1 million human drivers with robot drivers. And that effort could begin as early as this month, Bloomberg reports, when Uber reportedly will test a self-driving car with customers in downtown Pittsburgh. Read more at the Wall Street Journal.

Source: Fox News August 18, 2016 14:03 UTC