TECHNOLOGY The company confirms that it has been forced to stop its testing program in San Francisco…
last week, Uber defied the authorities. The company was testing, without having obtained the necessary permission, 16 taxis on stand-alone San Francisco. Despite warnings from the government, Uber is entêtait, swearing that she didn’t need to do as a human was always behind the wheel to regain control in the event of an emergency. On Wednesday, the DMV (Department of Motors Vehicle) in california has wrought: he has suspended the registration certificates of the 16 vehicles in question, thus forcing him to stay in the garage.
In the aftermath, Uber has confirmed to 20 Minutes: “We stopped our test program after the revocation of the registration of our autonomous cars. We seek where we can redeploy them but we remain 100% committed to California and are going to redouble our efforts to develop business rules for the whole State.”
the decision of The authorities in california is not really surprising. They had asked Uber to obtain the necessary permit, which costs 150 dollars, as of 20 companies (Google, Volkswagen, Mercedes, Tesla, BMW, Ford and Honda, in particular) have already done so. Uber has constantly refused, playing on words, without really offering a satisfactory explanation.
Some believe that this refusal was strategic: firms that are part of the official program, in fact, must declare to the authorities any incidents involving their vehicles. And then it took less than a day’s SUV’s Volvo modified by Uber for grilling red lights and put in dangers to cyclists, the company did not necessarily interest in playing the transparency…
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