Uber issued a statement that it has suspended testing of its autonomous vehicles in Tempe, San Francisco, Toronto and Pittsburgh. While Volvo supplied the basic vehicle, Uber made engineering and software changes to the car in question. The Tempe accident is the first public pedestrian fatality for an autonomous vehicle, but it's not the first fatality overall. Some auto critics and customers complain that some autonomous driving precursors, like lane-keeping alerts, are too intrusive and meddle too often in their driving. Anuj Pradhan, assistant research scientist at the U-M Transportation Research Institute, studies autonomous vehicle human factors, and he is involved in research investigating pedestrian trust in autonomous vehicles.

Source: Forbes March 19, 2018 20:05 UTC