|
Title: Uber relents, suspends self-driving car tests in San Francisco Post by: HCK on December 24, 2016, 04:05:14 pm Uber relents, suspends self-driving car tests in San Francisco
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Uber has halted its self-driving car trials in San Francisco and agreed to work with state regulators on obtaining proper permits for 16 test cars. The move amounts to a climbdown by Uber, which had last week argued it didn’t need to obtain the permits.</p><p>That sparked a demand from the state that the cars be pulled off the roads immediately and a threat of legal action if they were not.</p><p>Uber had argued its cars didn’t require autonomous car permits because they didn’t meet the law’s definition of being autonomous. It said the cars require a driver in the front seat at all times, and so are not autonomous but more akin to Tesla cars with advanced auto-pilot software.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3153011/legal/uber-relents-and-suspends-self-driving-car-tests-in-san-francisco.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Uber relents, suspends self-driving car tests in San Francisco (http://www.macworld.com/article/3153011/legal/uber-relents-and-suspends-self-driving-car-tests-in-san-francisco.html#tk.rss_all) |