Uber suspends self-driving car program after Arizona crash

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A self-driven Volvo SUV owned and operated by Uber Technologies Inc. is flipped on its side after a collision in Tempe, Arizona, U.S. on March 24, 2017.

Uber suspended its pilot program for driverless cars on Saturday after a vehicle equipped with the nascent technology crashed on an Arizona roadway, the ride-hailing company and local police said.

The accident, the latest involving a self-driving vehicle operated by one of several companies experimenting with autonomous vehicles, caused no serious injuries, Uber said.

Even so, the company said it was grounding driverless cars involved in a pilot program in Arizona, Pittsburgh and San Francisco pending the outcome of investigation into the crash on Friday evening in Tempe.

"We are continuing to look into this incident," an Uber spokeswoman said in an email.

The accident occurred when the driver of a second vehicle "failed to yield" to the Uber vehicle while making a turn, said Josie Montenegro, a spokeswoman for the Tempe Police Department.

"The vehicles collided, causing the autonomous vehicle to roll onto its side," she said in an email. "There were no serious injuries."

When Uber launched the pilot program in Pittsburgh last year, it said that driverless cars "require human intervention in many conditions, including bad weather." It also said the new technology had the potential to reduce the number of traffic accidents in the country.

The accident is not the first time a self-driving car has been involved in a collision. A driver of a Tesla Motors Inc Model S car operating in autopilot mode was killed in a collision with a truck in Williston, Florida in 2016. A self-driving vehicle operated by Alphabet Inc's Google was involved in a crash last year in Mountain View, California, striking a bus while attempting to navigate around an obstacle.

Uber suspends self-driving car program after Arizona crash

 

[无名的]

The sub minimum wage on demand economy worker lives to drive another day

 

[ORDER_66]

and these companies want to install self driving machines in big rigs and Long haul truckers!!!!! These fukking idiots never learn

 

[Pitfalls0117]

Let an automated Uber car hit me, I'll be living like a goddamn supervillain with the payola

 

[Menelik II]

Uber been taking Ls this year . problem is they can't really stop the technology, as all the driverless competitors will take their spot, and they'll lose out on all their investment so far.

 

[ORDER_66]

Uber been taking Ls this year . problem is they can't really stop the technology, as all the driverless competitors will take their spot, and they'll lose out on all their investment so far.

But the technology still sucks and is dangerous. Who cares about the competition if they cannot guarantee any car crashes.. if you aren't gonna make it true a.i. that can learn and drive flawless like a fukking video game what's the point?!?

 

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But the technology still sucks and is dangerous. Who cares about the competition if they cannot guarantee any car crashes.. if you aren't gonna make it true a.i. that can learn and drive flawless like a fukking video game what's the point?!?

. problem is Uber is trading at a massive premium on the growth expectation from driverless cars. tbh the drivers they have are terrible anyway

 

[CrownHeights]

and these companies want to install self driving machines in big rigs and Long haul truckers!!!!! These fukking idiots never learn

Anything to save a few dollars, greedy fukkers. Blow, hookers and yachts aren't cheap

 

[EndDomination]

So, another car failed to follow base driving rules, but Uber is to blame?
Once self-driving cars become the norm, accidents and general traffic-issues will be greatly reduced.
I'm here for the future.

 

[CrownHeights]

So, another car failed to follow base driving rules, but Uber is to blame?
Once self-driving cars become the norm, accidents and general traffic-issues will be greatly reduced.
I'm here for the future.

Of course it's Uber's fault...Their using the tech in their cars so the responsibility falls on them. Best believe their going to cut someone a check for that fukk up.

 

[ORDER_66]

. problem is Uber is trading at a massive premium on the growth expectation from driverless cars. tbh the drivers they have are terrible anyway

I'd rather have a human driver than a machine which can malfunction and drive me off a cliff...

 

[5n0man]

Of course it's Uber's fault...Their using the tech in their cars so the responsibility falls on them. Best believe their going to cut someone a check for that fukk up.

Yeah it's on uber, but this accident was caused by another driver trying to make a turn despite oncoming traffic.

The biggest obstacle this technology faces is the fact that a computer can't calculate bad human drivers. People can be a$$holes on the road.

 

[ill]

So, another car failed to follow base driving rules, but Uber is to blame?
Once self-driving cars become the norm, accidents and general traffic-issues will be greatly reduced.
I'm here for the future.

I'm thinking the same thing. Some of these guys didn't read op. If the article is correct then it's the other drivers fault for not yielding.

 

[Red Shield]

Yeah it's on uber, but this accident was caused by another driver trying to make a turn despite oncoming traffic.

The biggest obstacle this technology faces is the fact that a computer can't calculate bad human drivers. People can be a$$holes on the road.

Once the technology gets on point enough.. they will probably just make some laws to start declining the number of human drivers.

 

[ORDER_66]

I wanna see shyt like this on the road with the A.I.

I'm gonna be like...

You saw THAT shyt!!!???