Get ready, Pittsburgh. Uber's self-driving car is about to hit the road.

The ride-hailing company announced on Thursday that it will soon begin real-world testing of a car capable of driving without the aid of a human.

It also gave us our first peek at what that might look like:

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That's a test car from Uber's Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It's a Ford Fusion Hybrid, and it's also going to collect detailed mapping information as well as test its own self-driving abilities.

"If you’re driving around Pittsburgh in the coming weeks you might see a strange sight: a car that looks like it should be driven by a superhero," Uber wrote in a blog post announcing the testing.

The teaser comes about the same time that a photo of a self-driving Chevy Bolt EV was released undergoing testing in San Francisco. General Motors recently partnered with Lyft on a planned automated fleet. That Bolt will likely be Lyft's first autonomous car.

Uber, which has been working on self-driving cars for two years, never likes to be seen as late to the party. So the timing of this post may not be a coincidence.

Pittsburgh has been home to Uber's efforts to develop self-driving cars, with previous reports noting that cars similar to the one pictured above have been seen around the city for months. Uber claimed those cars were not self driving, but were doing early research to that end.

Uber also added a statement from William Peduto, the mayor of Pittsburgh, who lauded the step.

"From the first steel mills to the laboratories at Pitt and Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh has a long history of innovation. Now we’re taking another step forward, this time as home to Uber’s Advanced Technologies Center, where some of the world’s leading innovators are helping to shape the future of transportation," he said.

For now, there will still be a trained driver in the car monitoring the testing.

As for the stuff on top of the car, the vehicle carriers "a variety of sensors including radars, laser scanners, and high resolution cameras to map details of the environment."

Uber and its competitors, most notably Lyft, have made no secret of their ambitions to remove drivers from their businesses.

Uber has been working with the University of Arizona and Carnegie Mellon University on self-driving technology. It famously poached much of the robotics department from the latter, which is also why this self-driving car is riding around in Pittsburgh.

Lyft is working with General Motors to get self driving cars on the road, and is also part of a coalition with Volvo and Ford to promote self-driving technology.

What of the millions of drivers around the world that have found work driving for companies like Uber, Lyft and Didi? They're in line to be replaced, a reality that is starting to hit home for many of them.

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