It was in March that one of the self-driving cars of Uber Technologies Inc bumped into and killed a woman in Arizona. And now, nearly nine months after the deadly incident, the Department of Transportation of Pennsylvania has given its approval for the cab service providing company to redeploy its driverless car testing in the city of Pittsburgh.
A spokesperson of the company said that Uber had not resumed its self-driving car tests as yet. The petition to redeploy the tests was submitted by the company in November, eight months after the crash.
In the previous month, Uber said that two of its employees would be seated in the front seat when it resumes its test again. This will facilitate the automatic emergency braking system and also keep a check on the safety of the two employees.
Uber told the Reuters earlier this month that after it got the permission from Pennsylvania, only a few self-driving cars would operate between two of its Pittsburgh offices located at the distance of a mile. In addition to this, the cars will not be running during rainy weather or during night times and will be exceeding 25 mph speed.
Notably, the company plans on restarting testing of the driverless cars in San Francisco and any also reportedly carry out new manual road tests in the city of Toronto.
Source: reuters
