A fatal Uber accident rocks the robotics world
On Sunday, a self-driving Uber — with a safety driver behind the wheel — killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona. The car was in autonomous mode at the time of the accident. Almost immediately, Uber pulled its all self-driving cars off the road — in Arizona, San Francisco, Toronto and Pittsburgh.
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