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
In a 1994 paper called “Anthropological Invariants in Travel Behavior,” he looked at empirical historical data to establish a relationship between the adoption of new transit technology and how much the footprints of cities sprawl.
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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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