Uber may have disabled the standard collision-avoidance technology in its autonomous Volvo SUV before it hit and killed a pedestrian last week, according to the safety system manufacturer. A history of issues with self-driving cars Uber road tests its self-driving car for the first time in Pittsburgh in September 2016. Phoenix is launched as the company's main testing ground with 400 employees and more than 150 autonomous cars in 2017. New Uber CEO Khosrowshahi is persuaded to keep the autonomous car project after visiting the Phoneix site in the summer of 2017. In December 2017, Uber missed its target to seek regulatory approval for a self-driving car service in Arizona.

Source: Daily Mail March 27, 2018 13:33 UTC