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When it comes to vehicle security, Uber has taken a step ahead in making the vehicles safer. The officials have confirmed that the company has hired two top-notch security analysts to ramp up its target of achieving the technology of self-driven cars. Uber promises the joining of Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek who have been working for Twitter Inc. and security firm IOActive respectively.
Uber’s Advanced Technologies Centre, a research laboratory set up by the company in Pittsburgh in February has already hired dozens of vehicle experts from Carnegie Mellon University, and now will be joined by Miller and Valasek.
There appointment was confirmed by a welcome tweet from Raffi Krikorian, head of Uber ATC. Both have started with their new appointments from Tuesday.
Uber at the moment is knee-deep with the target to develop or adapt the self-driving cars technology, and Miller and Valasek will be joining the company to make the vehicles more secure. This can help the company to reduce the man-power it has under the header of the thousands of contract drivers that the company has hired.
In order to develop this technology, the company has also shook hands with the University of Arizona, by providing the students grants in order to research and help developing the technology.
In march, Uber bought digital mapping firm deCarta, a San Jose, California-based company whose technology offers search and turn-by-turn directions.
