Uber Wants To Resume Self-Driving Car Tests On Public Roads

An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News: Nearly eight months after one of its autonomous test vehicles hit and killed an Arizona pedestrian, Uber wants to resume testing on public roads. The company has filed an application on with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to test in Pittsburgh, and it has issued a lengthy safety report pledging to put two human backup drivers in each vehicle and take a raft of other precautions to make the vehicles safe. Among the other precautions Uber will take are keeping the autonomous vehicle system engaged at all times and activating the Volvo's automatic emergency braking system as a backup. In addition, Uber is requiring more technical training and expertise of employees sitting behind the wheel of the vehicles, according to a 70-page safety report the company released Friday. 'Our goal is to really work to regain that trust and to work to help move the entire industry forward,' Noah Zych, Uber's head of system safety for self-driving cars, said in an interview. 'We think the right thing to do is to be open and transparent about the things that we are doing.'

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