As reported by Bloomberg, the Uber company recently admitted that it secretly carries out tests robocar on the streets of San Francisco for a few weeks, without considering it necessary to obtain a permit from DMV offices, required for similar types of experiments on public roads. The whole incident is reduced to varying interpretations of terms. Uber claims that its cars are not equipped with an autopilot, and are only self-controlling. Moreover, the driver is ready to intervene in the management at any time. These prototypes are involved in providing services to Uber, passengers are ordinary service customers.
By the way, only during one such trip lasting 30 minutes through the streets of San Francisco test automation interfered in the work of more than ten times. Sometimes the machine will transfer control to the driver - according to the test, it shows "overload" of sensors and electronics because of the abundance of information processed. DMV Office explained that more than twenty companies have already received the California authorities to permit testing robocar on public roads, and Uber have to do the same. The text of the rules will have to be supplemented by all possible synonyms to test the participants could not avoid liability due to differences in the interpretation of the terms.
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