'We're just rentals': Uber drivers ask where they fit in a self-driving future

With Uber set to deploy autonomous cars in Pittsburgh, some drivers for the company wonder if they've been expendable all along

"Wo-o-o-o-w," Cynthia Ingram said. "We all knew it was coming. I just didn't expect it this soon."

Ingram, a 60-year-old Uber driver in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had just learned that Uber would be deploying autonomous cars to accept fares in her city within weeks. The announcement on Thursday morning sent shockwaves through the community of about 4,000 drivers that serve Pennsylvania's second largest city.