Uber's self-driving cars are back. Well, sort of.

Uber’s self-driving cars are back on the road in Pittsburgh, but with a lot of changes.

In the four months since a self-driving Uber hit and killed a woman walking a bicycle on an Arizona road, the ride-hailing company has made some changes. The first and foremost is keeping the vehicles in manual mode.

After 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg was fatally hit in Tempe, Arizona, all of Uber’s self-driving programs were shut down. In Arizona, those operations were shuttered permanently. In San Francisco, Uber let its testing permit lapse. Now after police and federal investigations found that driver distraction and glitches with Uber’s software were factors in the crash, Uber’s ready to resume testing, but with a much different program. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Uber's self-driving cars are back. Well, sort of.