Uber suspended its self-driving vehicle testing in the Phoenix area, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Toronto. Police have said that the victim, 49 year old Elaine Herzberg, stepped out in front of the car suddenly and they do not believe the car was to blame. The Volvo SUV was in self-driving mode with a human back-up operator behind the wheel in Tempe when a woman walking a bicycle was hit.
The accident prompted the ride-hailing company to suspend road-testing of such cars in the US and Canada. 'While we are certainly excited by this possibility, we are also committed to ensuring that every mile we drive on public roads contributes meaningfully to our development work.'Ī self-driving Uber vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in the first death involving a fully autonomous test vehicle on March 19, 2018. 'The data we collect will inform our next steps - we may not look to test our self-driving system in Dallas immediately following this first round of data gathering. 'Manual data collection is the first step in our development process and key to validating our expansion approach,' explained Geidt. The Uber team will use the information to develop HD maps, simulations for its test track and identify key characteristics found in a city to ensure its self-driving cars would perform as intended. 'The city's modern infrastructure, unique traffic patterns, road characteristics, and climate will offer new information that can inform our ongoing engineering efforts.'Īlthough Uber will be testing a fleet of its self-driving cars around 'Big D', they will be driven manually by Mission Specialists who will have control of the vehicle at all times.
'Dallas also offers us the opportunity to explore a different type of road network for our self-driving technology.
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