Self-driving Testers Pause to Rethink After Fatality

It’s time to curb the enthusiasm around self-driving cars. After an Uber test vehicle operating in autonomous mode struck and killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Ariz., on the night of March 18, manufacturers, suppliers and regulators have been forced...

The Lose-Lose Ethics of Testing Self-Driving Cars in Public

HERE’S THE STRANGE thing about where I live: When I walk outside my office, down to the busy, honk-filled four-lane road that runs by it, I’m immediately part of a wide scale science experiment. A lot of us are, here in San Francisco, in metro Phoenix, Arizona, in...

Self-driving Car Industry Confronts Trust Issues After Uber Crash

The fatal accident involving an Uber self-driving car cranks up pressure on the self-driving vehicle industry to prove its software and sensors are safe in the absence of strong government standards, experts in the field said. Automakers including General Motors Co...

Payne: Uber Car Flunked Autonomous 101

Last August, I was a passenger in an autonomous Uber in downtown Pittsburgh in the same type of Volvo XC90 crossover with the same hardware as in the one that struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, on Sunday night. As the Volvo I was in headed down a...