Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in California

Re:Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in Cal... by kayoone on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @02:10AM (#16695751)

Most higher end cars already have assistant systems that prevent you from running over people or into unexpected obstacles. The problem here seems to be that Uber disabled some of those systems that the Volvo base car normally has.

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Re:Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in Cal... by lostlogin on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @02:44AM (#16695902)

I’ve read about the incident but haven’t seen mention of why they did this. Was their own system supposed to provide the same safety or something?

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Re:Uber will not re-apply for self-driving car permit in Cal... by bkor on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @04:21AM (#16696262)

Apparently every self driving company does that. So e.g. Waymo also disables such safety systems.

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