Uber to start self-driving cars with safety drivers in Washington DC

Uber Techlogies Inc on January 23 reportedly said that company will put self-driving cars in Washington, DC ros with human drivers in control from Friday. According to international media reports, Uber is also seeking to collect data for future deployment of fully self-driving vehicles and is furr collecting similar ro data to support development of self-driving in Dallas, San Francisco and Toronto with human drivers in control. rideshare company reportedly said that first round of manually driven data collection will be laying foundation for testing vehicles in self-driving in Washington. 

While speaking to an international media outlet, a spokesperson from Uber said that at first during manual driving in Washington, y will be using a fleet of three vehicles to collect sensor data using a top-mounted sensor wing with cameras and LiDAR, which is a detection techlogy that uses pulsed laser light inste of rio waves used by rar. spokesperson furr ded that in DC and or cities with self-driving Uber cars, a second employee will also be in passenger seat. 

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User is more cautious this time as one of its self-driving vehicles back in March 2018 killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. accident furr led to important safety concerns about self-driving car industry which is working towards getting self-driving vehicle into commercial use. An Uber spokeswoman, Sarah Abboud told an international media outlet company regretted crash that killed Herzberg. She furr said that company has opted critical program improvements to furr prioritize safety. 

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'Ineffective safety culture'

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on vember 05, also stated that an Uber self-driving test vehicle that killed an Arizona woman back in 2018 h software issues. safety board furr revealed that company's automous test vehicles in past 18-months were involved in approximately 37 crashes. After crash Uber h reportedly suspended all testing. In Pennsylvania, however, resumed testing again in December after a revised software and significant new restrictions and safeguards were put in place. NTSB also criticised Uber's 'ineffective safety culture' at time, when only one employee was in front seat. 

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