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From: slacker711	3/24/2018 8:58:53 AM
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Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Were Struggling Before Arizona Crash nytimes.com By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHIMARCH 23, 2018 National Transportation Safety Board investigators examining a self-driving Uber vehicle that was involved in a fatal accident in Tempe, Ariz., on Sunday night. Uber has suspended tests of its autonomous vehicles around the country. Credit Reuters SAN FRANCISCO — Uber’s robotic vehicle project was not living up to expectations months before a self-driving car operated by the company struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Ariz. The cars were having trouble driving through construction zones and next to tall vehicles, like big rigs. And Uber’s human drivers had to intervene far more frequently than the drivers of competing autonomous car projects. Waymo, formerly the self-driving car project of Google, said that in tests on roads in California last year, its cars went an average of nearly 5,600 miles before the driver had to take control from the computer to steer out of trouble. As of March, Uber was struggling to meet its target of 13 miles per “intervention” in Arizona, according to 100 pages of company documents obtained by The New York Times and two people familiar with the company’s operations in the Phoenix area but not permitted to speak publicly about it. Yet Uber’s test drivers were being asked to do more — going on solo runs when they had worked in pairs. snip...............................more at link.

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