Uber suspended all of its self-driving testing Monday, March 19, 2018, after what is believed to be the first fatal pedestrian crash involving the vehicles. Many major automakers, General Motors, Ford, Toyota, Volvo, and Tesla among them — are at various stages of developing, deploying or testing autonomous technologies. In general, she said, autonomous vehicles have a variety of backup mechanisms to account for anomalies such as a pedestrian in the roadway. [ Waymo gives federal officials a detailed safety report on self-driving vehicles ]“Arizona welcomes Uber self-driving cars with open arms and wide open roads. “Hopefully it happens much faster and with a much shorter time scale,” he said of autonomous vehicles.

Source: Washington Post March 19, 2018 17:09 UTC