Uber is almost undoubtedly the biggest name in ride-sharing in the 2010's and the company is looking to go even bigger. While the company currently relies on hiring drivers to bring passengers from point A to B, Bloomberg reports today that self-driving Uber cars will hit Pittsburgh as early as this summer. That beats competitor Lyft's goal of getting automated vehicles on the road by 2017 by almost half a year.

The choice of Pittsburgh can be traced back to Uber's close relationship with Carnegie Mellon. While Uber didn't quite partner up with the university, it did poach 40 Carnegie Mellon researchers to work on autonomous vehicles for the startup. The researchers hired away hail from CMU's robotics center--many of which were software developers.

Uber has retro-fitted Volvo XC90 sport-utility vehicles to support its driverless car software. Autonomous Ubers will be sent to Pittsburgh-residing Uber users at random, meaning you won't be able to specifically choose the cars currently.