In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

News that Uber is acquiring a mapping service has heightened speculation the cab firm is developing its own driverless cars, including the components and software inside. Uber is set to close the deal for San Jose-based firm deCarta 'later this week,' and it would lessen Uber's reliance on Google Maps. The cab service said the acquisition is designed to ‘fine tune’ Uber’s services that rely on maps - but it could also help with the development of an autonomous vehicle. Uber is set to close the deal for San Jose-based firm deCarta 'later this week,' and it would lessen Uber's reliance on Google Maps. The cab service said the acquisition is designed to ‘fine tune’ Uber’s services that rely on maps - but it could also help with the development of an autonomous vehicleUber told MailOnline it expects to close the deCarta deal 'later this week'Mapping service will be used to boost the cab service's current offeringsMay give it independence from Google, on whose maps it service reliesDeal bolsters rumours Uber is serious about building an autonomous carCalifornian firm is said to have built a research centre in Pittsburgh with the intention of creating a self-driving car 
 Question:While it may not be as well-known as _, its technology is extensively used by consumers.
Google Maps

A gangster who was guilty of the 'cold-blooded murder of his ex girlfriend and her two-year-old son has been jailed for life after spending four years on the run in Central America. Juan Garcia and two other members of the MS-13 gang, Adalberto Ariel Guzman and Rene Mendez Mejia, shot and killed Vanessa Argueta, 19, and her two-year-old son Diego Torres. The murder happened in Central Islip, New York on February 5, 2010. According to the FBI, Garcia and Mejia shot the young mother in the head and chest, while Guzman shot the toddler twice in the head. Garcia and his fellow gang members fled to El Salvador after the February 2010 shooting.Juan Garcia, 21, shot dead his ex-girlfriend Vanessa Argueta, 19, in 2010One of his MS-13 street gang mates shot dead her son Diego Torres, 2The FBI placed Garcia, who fled to El Salvador, on the Most Wanted listHe was jailed for life in federal court in New York after admitting the killings 
 Question:Guzman and _ were arrested in May 2010, but Garcia remained on the fun and was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List.
Rene Mendez Mejia

(CNN) -- The fight to block construction of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline through east Texas stepped up Monday as protesters locked themselves to machinery. Dozens of others formed a human chain to keep heavy machinery from moving around the proposed pipeline's path in Cherokee County, said Ethan Nuss, spokesman for the Tar Sands Blockade group. Three protesters at another location suspended themselves from 50-foot pine trees with their life lines anchored by the construction equipment, Nuss said. Cherokee County sheriff's deputies used "pain compliance" measures, including pepper spray, to remove the four protesters locked to the machinery, Nuss said. The four were dragged away "very aggressively and painfully" and arrested, he said.Dozens formed a "human chain" to keep heavy machinery from moving at pipeline siteThree protesters suspended themselves from 50-foot pine trees to stop pipeline workDeputies used pepper spray to remove protesters, group saysCompany building the pipeline did not immediately respond to CNN calls 
 Question:While construction of some segments of the proposed 1,700-mile pipeline has not been approved, the _ government and courts have cleared its path through that state.

Texas