<story><title>Uber to Suspend Autonomous Tests After Arizona Accident</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-25/uber-autonomous-vehicle-gets-in-accident-in-tempe-arizona</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>downandout</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;It should be frightening to anyone on the streets that Uber managers are making decisions to put self driving cars on the road.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Something that probably should have been in the article&amp;#x27;s title that this accident occurred because the &lt;i&gt;human&lt;/i&gt; driver in the &lt;i&gt;other car&lt;/i&gt; failed to yield.  While Uber is certainly a very flawed company, neither its technology nor its people were at fault here.</text></item><item><author>heisenbit</author><text>From a strategy point Uber is in a desperate position. After the Google lawsuit their self-driving story is not working. Their existing business is loosing money in most places with no end in sight. Top level executives are leaving which is a sign that they can&amp;#x27;t imagine a positive course in the medium term.&lt;p&gt;The company is under extreme pressure and has proven over and over again to be willing to cut corners when it comes to legal compliance. It should be frightening to anyone on the streets that Uber managers are making decisions to put self driving cars on the road. They neither have the culture, patience nor the expertise to make decisions affecting life and death.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maddyboo</author><text>We don&amp;#x27;t know about the specifics of the accident, but I just want to say that simply not being &amp;quot;at fault&amp;quot; is not the same thing as driving safely. A large number of accidents can be avoided by the non-&amp;quot;at fault&amp;quot; party alone exercising caution – something autonomous vehicles should be far superior at than humans.&lt;p&gt;Say you&amp;#x27;re approaching an intersection with a green light while another car is traveling perpendicular at a moderately high rate of speed – perhaps just 5mph faster than their maximum safe stopping speed. You&amp;#x27;re completely allowed to just keep driving through the intersection, and when they hit you, they will be at fault. However, you could have avoided the collision by recognizing the situation and slowing down – and this is a type of analysis that autonomous vehicles are specially suited for compared to human drivers.</text></comment>
<story><title>Uber to Suspend Autonomous Tests After Arizona Accident</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-25/uber-autonomous-vehicle-gets-in-accident-in-tempe-arizona</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>downandout</author><text>&lt;i&gt;&amp;gt;It should be frightening to anyone on the streets that Uber managers are making decisions to put self driving cars on the road.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Something that probably should have been in the article&amp;#x27;s title that this accident occurred because the &lt;i&gt;human&lt;/i&gt; driver in the &lt;i&gt;other car&lt;/i&gt; failed to yield.  While Uber is certainly a very flawed company, neither its technology nor its people were at fault here.</text></item><item><author>heisenbit</author><text>From a strategy point Uber is in a desperate position. After the Google lawsuit their self-driving story is not working. Their existing business is loosing money in most places with no end in sight. Top level executives are leaving which is a sign that they can&amp;#x27;t imagine a positive course in the medium term.&lt;p&gt;The company is under extreme pressure and has proven over and over again to be willing to cut corners when it comes to legal compliance. It should be frightening to anyone on the streets that Uber managers are making decisions to put self driving cars on the road. They neither have the culture, patience nor the expertise to make decisions affecting life and death.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bdcravens</author><text>&amp;gt; the human driver in the other car failed to yield&lt;p&gt;Driving around Houston this happens to me several times a day. Obviously the technology wasn&amp;#x27;t designed for essentially &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; driving conditions.</text></comment>