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Uber Disbands Self-Driving-Car Test Unit in Arizona
Uber Technologies Inc. has shut down its self-driving-vehicle test program in Arizona and won’t resume limited testing on public roads elsewhere until this summer.
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Uber Technologies Inc. has shut down its self-driving-vehicle test program in Arizona and won’t resume limited testing on public roads elsewhere until this summer.
The internal announcement to staff comes two months after an Uber vehicle operating in autonomous mode killed a pedestrian in Tempe. The crash prompted Arizona to ban Uber from conducting tests on public roads.
Shutting down the Arizona operation will idle some 300 test drivers and idle Uber’s largest robotic test fleet.
Uber says it will resume testing in Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Toronto, where tests were suspended after the Tempe fatality. In a memo to its staff, Uber says it intends to relaunch tests on public roads in Pittsburgh this summer and is negotiating with California to do the same.
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