After video showed an Uber self-driving car running a red light, the firm cited « human error » by the ride-along driver. But a report faults the autonomous tech.
A clutch of Uber robocars in San Francisco in December, before state regulators cracked down on the program.
Call it another pothole for Uber.
Remember that taxicab dash-cam video of an Uber robocar running a red light in San Francisco last December? (It’s embedded below.) Uber — which had put the self-driving cars on the streets without first getting a permit — had said the screwup was due to « human error » and that it had suspended the driver who was riding along in the car.
But The New York Times says the autonomous-driving system was in fact to blame. The paper reported the news late Friday, citing two unnamed Uber employees, as well as internal company documents. The paper also said that « all told, the mapping programs used by Uber’s cars failed to recognize six traffic lights in the San Francisco area.
