Uber restarted on-road testing again last December. At that time, Uber's self-driving program fell under the scrutiny of local police, lawmakers and federal investigators and the company shuttered its self-driving car operations in Arizona. The crash was the first known pedestrian death caused by a vehicle in full autonomous mode. The company pulled all its autonomous vehicles from public roads in 2018 after the fatal accident in Tempe, Arizona. Geidt said Uber will begin testing its self-driving cars in Dallas in early November. The company announced in August that it was expanding its Dallas office and planned to bring thousands of jobs to the city. Uber already has self-driving car operations in Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Toronto.
Was Uber's driverless car crash avoidable? Experts say yes.Here's how your Uber is learning to drive.Uber's self-driving cars return to public roads after fatal crash."The city's modern infrastructure, unique traffic patterns, road characteristics, and climate will offer new information that can inform our ongoing engineering efforts." "Dallas also offers us the opportunity to explore a different type of road network for our self-driving technology," Austin Geidt, head of Uber's autonomous vehicle strategy, wrote in a blog post. This type of driving allows the cars' systems to map city streets and helps ready the vehicles for the open road. Instead, the company said, each car be driven by a human who'll maintain control at all times. In Dallas, Uber's vehicles won't be operating in full autonomous mode just yet. This is Uber's first major expansion in its self-driving car division since a fatal crash in Arizona in March 2018.īest known for its ride-hailing service, Uber has been testing self-driving cars since 2016. The company said Tuesday that the newest city where it'll be testing its autonomous vehicles is Dallas. Uber's self-driving car operations are growing.
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