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Uber to Stop Testing Self-Driving Cars in Arizona, Continue Elsewhere

posted by chromas on Thursday May 24 2018, @11:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL dept.

takyon writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Friday May 25 2018, @07:19AM

    by anubi (2828) on Friday May 25 2018, @07:19AM (#683921) Journal

    I've spent my career developing safety critical systems...

    May I ask what is your preferred framework?

    I have been involved in similar stuff, and the only thing I really trust is Micrium's Micro C/OS on the ColdFire processor.

    But I got canned before I even started that one.

    ( They wanted me to use an OS I had no trust for... as I was afraid just one midnight "security update" would make ME look like a feeble coder incapable of designing robust code.)

    --
    "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]