Clock ticking on making extra cash as an Uber ride-share service driver

Property taxes were coming due, and Erik Lingren was looking to make extra money. He cleaned out his Toyota Tacoma pickup last week, expecting to earn a couple hundred dollars by driving people around the city for the ride-sharing service Uber. Then he heard Uber's intentions to put self-driving cars on the road in Pittsburgh in the next few weeks. Lingren went from feeling like a part of the 21st-century sharing economy to a relic of an era whose time was speeding to an end. "I have to admit, it did kind of take me aback," said Lingren, 48, of Shaler.