Uber ends self-driving operation in Arizona
Uber has shuttered its self-driving testing program in Arizona and laid off close to 300 workers there — most of them test drivers, or "vehicle operators" — two months after one of its autonomous cars killed a pedestrian, the company said on Wednesday. The company had been testing its self-driving technology in the state since 2016, but halted operations in the wake of the March crash. The company's testing was also indefinitely suspended by the Arizona governor's office.
[...] Uber says it still plans to restart its self-driving operations in other locations (like Pittsburgh or San Francisco) once the investigations into the Arizona crash are complete. But in those locations, Uber will "drive in a much more limited way," according to an internal email obtained by ArsTechnica.
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Thursday May 24 2018, @11:30PM (1 child)
Say, downtown NY or Washington...
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 25 2018, @12:09AM
Arizona, with its miles of straight level nonpacked streets and 356 dry cloudless days out of the year is a horrible place to test.