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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Looks like uber partnered with Volvo to get the idiots off the road. Unstoppable team. We are in trouble.
Probably the Volvo got tired of all these commotions and decided to lie on its side and take a nap
If you upright the Volvo probably the paintwork will be unscathed, Uber then has less money to waste on respraying the car XD
New mirror, maybe some new interior dressing (I assume some sort of airbag deploys when you roll the car), and you’re done.
Why is the headline not “This self driving car was on its side after another car crashed into it” rather than making the self driving part the subject?
MAYBE a driven car could have avoided it, but it’s still not the fault of the self driving car and too many people don’t read more than headlines
The self driving part the important part. Important enough that Uber has suspended their self driving car programme as a result - wether the other car was at fault or not.
Understand this: hundreds of thousands of collisions are avoided every day because someone avoided someone else’s mistake. Accident avoidance is important wether you are the person causing the collision or avoiding it.
If self driving cars can’t drive to at least the standard of humans, then there is a problem allowing them on the road.
If no ones gonna crash me f* it I’ll do it myself
Luckily for uber its a volvo, they don’t even have to pay for the damage lol
wow even wing mirrors not damaged
The world need better drivers, not self driving cars… Just THAT !
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Ok, I live 20 miles north of Tempe, AZ. I heard all about this yesterday. The self driving car was not at fault. The other driver in the other car failed to yield to the Volvo and the Volvo crashed into it.
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