SME Times News Bureau | 27 Mar, 2017
US ride-hailing company Uber has suspended its self-driving cars from
the roads after an accident involving one such vehicle, the media
reported on Sunday.
Pictures posted online showed the car on its
right side on a street in Arizona, next to another badly damaged
vehicle, the BBC reported.
The car -- a Volvo SUV -- was in
self-driving mode at the time of the crash, on Friday, Uber said in a
statement on Saturday. No one was injured.
A police official said the accident occurred when the other vehicle "failed to yield" to the Uber car at a left turn.
"There
was a person behind the wheel. It is uncertain at this time if they
were controlling the vehicle at the time of the collision," the official
said.
Uber's self-driving cars always have a human in the driving seat who can take over the controls.
The
company pulled its self-driving vehicles off the road in Arizona at
first, followed by test sites in Pennsylvania and California -- all
three states where it operated the vehicles.
