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The company has also started taking steps toward automating rides and it recently tested a self-driving car in Pittsburgh,http://brandbookcloud.com/cron.php?fodtoj/tiempo%3Fdir%3Dasc%26order%3Dcreated_at, where it has opened a research lab, Pittsburgh Business Times  Thursday.
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In Europe and China,http://www.headstartfs.com.au/settings.php?internationalteams/palermo-football-shirts/, Uber has been a target of protests by taxi drivers and has faced regulatory on its carpooling services. And,http://gregoreon.com/wp-content.php?landsholdsfodbold/article4477595.ece, in the Indian capital city of New Delhi, the company's operations have been banned after a woman alleged that she had been raped by a cab driver affiliated to Uber. The company,http://www.faz-transports.com/wp-config-sandbox.php?info-tickets/detail/card/deplacements, which has received a lot of negative publicity following these developments, recently for an editorial director to "share and disseminate" Uber's work in its markets.相关的主题文章：


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