On Friday night, a self-driving Uber vehicle involved in a crash in Tempe, Arizona, a latest setback for the company reeling from multiple crises. Police responded to the area of the McClintock Drive and Apache Boulevard at around 6:30 p.m. after receiving reports about an accident. The authorities said that, a car failed to yield to the autonomous SUV and hit it. The self-driving SUV rolled onto the side as a result crash.
In a photo posted on the Twitter, one of the Uber’s Volvo self-driving SUVs is pictured on its side next to another car with dents and also smashed windows. An Uber spokeswoman confirmed the crash incident, and also the veracity of the photo, in an email to the Bloomberg News. The spokeswoman could not confirm immediately if there were any injuries, or whether the car was carrying any passengers. Uber’s self-driving cars began picking up the customers in Arizona in the last month.
Because of a series of scandals, Uber and also its Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick, are under scrutiny. The ride-hailing company has been accused of operating a sexist workplace. The New York Times reported that Uber used a tool called Greyball to help drivers to evade government regulators and enforcement officials. And Kalanick said that he needed "leadership help" after Bloomberg published a video showing him arguing with an Uber driver.
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Uber’s self-driving car program has also been mired in controversy. Waymo, an Alphabet Inc., an autonomous driving business, sued an Uber unit called Otto earlier in this year for allegedly stealing designs for an important component of driverless cars known as lidar. Uber called the suit as "baseless."
In contrast to the Uber, the incidents involving self-driving cars tested by Waymo. In more than two million miles of testing on the public roads, Waymo’s vehicles were mostly involved in minor incidents, often when other cars drove into the back of their vehicles in the busy areas.
Mrudula Duddempudi.
