The key statistic: prior to last Sunday’sfatal crash in Tempe, Arizona, Uber’s self-driving cars in Arizona were ‘struggling’ to go 13 miles between interventions by a safety driver—known as a disengagement.
Source: arstechnica.com
An Uber self-driving car collided with another vehicle in Pittsburgh on February 24 in an incident first reported by Pittsburgh’s channel 11 last week. No one was seriously injured, but the incident caused serious damage to the vehicles. Uber and the driver disagree on exactly what happened in the seconds before the crash.
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In a study that holds promise for self-driving cars, MIT researchers have developed a system that can image and gauge the distance of objects shrouded by fog so thick that human vision can’t penetrate it.
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