This Self Driving Uber Vehicle Is On Its Side After A Collision In Arizona.
Two ‘safety’ drivers were in the front seats of the Uber car, which was in self-driving mode at the time of the crash, Uber said in an email, a standard requirement for its self-driving vehicles. The back seat was empty.
Two ‘safety’ drivers were in the front seats of the Uber car, which was in self-driving mode at the time of the crash, Uber said in an email, a standard requirement for its self-driving vehicles. The back seat was empty.
Uber has been getting itself in trouble recently, and it looks like this won’t help. A car apparently failed to yield for the Uber vehicle and the resulting impact led to it rolling onto its side.
The problem here is that the XC90 SUVs are their autonomous vehicles.
And it crashed.
Wether it was driving in its autonomous mode is as yet unknown, but the not-really-a-ride-sharing company has been testing out cars in Tempe Arizona where this happened. According to reports so far (Friday night) there was a passenger in the vehicle but no injuries were sustained.
Uber was recently in trouble in California and received a cease and desist letter for operating without a permit. On top of that, Uber is having trouble with scandals and sexual harassment allegations. This won’t help their cause as there will no doubt be a lot of press on the incident shortly, and wether it was in self driving mode or not is basically the only question anyone will care about.
Sources: Fresco News and ABC 15.
Update: The car was in self driving mode at the time of the crash. Uber have suspended their self driving car programme as a result, and the question now is “would a human driver have avoided the collision?”.
Hundreds of thousands of collisions are avoided every day by people that didn’t make the initial mistake, and to be allowed on the road autonomous cars need to be at least as good as humans at defensive driving.
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That is why self driving car is not the future.
Maybe, if it was the self driving car’s fault. Another car controlled by a person failed to yield to the self driving car, and caused the accident.
Unfortunately, self driving cars are the future. As the technology gets better and better, and is in more and more cars. We will get closer to the day when a law is instated that makes it illegal for humans to drive their own car. The systems will be advanced enough that accidents won’t happen unless someone is driving their car.
I just hope I’m dead before that day comes.
“Dis but a scratch!”
Safest car in the world, passenger had no injuries, and people are freaking out on if it was in autonomous mode or not. Pathetic.
The car was in self driving mode at the time of the crash. Uber have suspended their self driving car programme as a result, and the question now is “would a human driver have avoided the collision?”.
Fact is hundreds of thousands of collisions are avoided every day by the people not at fault. If autonomous cars can’t do that, then they have no place on the road.
The Volvo is just like
Pick me up it’s no big deal what’s all this drama about
Alright. Uber is also in trouble with the city of Portland. Actually, all of Multnomah County.
The car was in self driving mode at the time of the crash. Uber have suspended their self driving car programme as a result, and the question now is “would a human driver have avoided the collision?”.
Clearly photoshopped, no way something could have put that Volvo on its side… Unless it was another volvo
You’re seeing it wrong.
The Volvo is perfectly upright.
The impact just made the whole world tilt by 90 degrees.
well that’s one way of convincing people to buy Volvo, if their tanks are crashing into everything, you’d be better off in one of them!
wonder what would happen if two Volvos crashed into each other
Volvo tired. Volvo sleep.
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