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More bad news for Uber: one of the ride-hailing giant's self-driving Volvo SUVs has been involved in a crash in Arizona — apparently leaving the vehicle flipped onto its side, and with damage to at least two other human-driven cars in the vicinity.
The aftermath of the accident is pictured in photos and a video posted to Twitter by a user of @FrescoNews, a service for selling content to news outlets. According to the company's tweets, the collision happened in Tempe, Arizona, and no injuries have yet been reported.
Uber has also confirmed the accident and the veracity of the photos to Bloomberg. We've reached out to the company with questions and will update this story with any response. Update: Uber has now provided us with the following statement: "We are continuing to look into this incident and can confirm we had no backseat passengers in the vehicle."
TechCrunch understands Uber's self-driving fleet in Arizona has been grounded, following the incident, while an investigation is undertaken. The company has confirmed the vehicle involved in the incident was in self-driving mode. We're told no one was seriously injured.
Local newspaper reports suggest another car failed to yield to Uber's SUV, hitting it and resulting in the autonomous vehicle flipping onto its side. Presumably the Uber driver was unable to take over the controls in time to prevent the accident.
Source: TechCrunch
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 27 2017, @03:02PM (1 child)
If I were a Master of the Universe, a two-pronged strategy would be best to take down Uber. First there is the sexual harassment stuff, which works wonders. Now that Uber's been softened up by that, which is guaranteed to mute the response of misogynerds who might point out the flaws with the next part, here's the second prong. Hire desperate people to cause accidents with Uber self-driving vehicles.
Why would a misogynerd defend Uber? Is he also a sexually harassing rape monster? No? Well, he'd better not point out the obvious flaw lest we conclude that he's pro-rape and in defending known sexual harassers.
If you're a Master of the Universe, you can just grab women by the pussy. You misogynerds, though! Ha. Why would a woman ever want to be with one of you dorks? She'd rather I were grabbing her pussy.
I might be a leader at Ford or Google or any of the other major companies working on this technology. I might even be a taxi company kingpin. Human lives mean nothing to me. Getting to market with self-driving cars first so that I can lock customers into my company is what I care about.
(Score: 3, Informative) by DannyB on Monday March 27 2017, @04:29PM
There is possibly a third prong to your two pronged tragedy to take down Uber. Google's lawsuit over stolen self crashing car tech.
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