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Self-Driving Car From Uber Enters One Way Street From Wrong Side

A self-driving car prototype operated by Uber in Pittsburgh was spotted by another Uber driver as it entered a one-way street the wrong way.
Self-driving car prototype from Uber turns after entering one-way street the wrong way 6 photos
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Self-driving car prototype from Uber turns after entering one-way street the wrong way
The Uber driver named Nathan Stachelek was pulled over to the side of the road when he saw the Ford Fusion that had Uber branding on it driving in the wrong direction on a one-way street.

Nathan managed to film the other car and posted it on a Facebook group for Uber drivers, which was, fortunately, open for others to see.

The incident occurred on the night of September 26, which is not long after Uber commenced the public trial of self-driving prototypes that are meant for customers.

As the company has explained from the moment it announced that it had received approval to test these prototypes on public roads, each self-driving Uber vehicle will have a human behind the wheel and another person in the front passenger’s seat.

In the case of this incident, the human driver was filmed while turning the car in an intersection to re-route his travel. At the moment, it is unclear whether the Uber self-driving prototype was operated by a human when it entered a one-way street, or if computers were controlling it.

Other self-driving car prototypes have been involved in accidents and incidents before, but many of them had human causes. Google’s first crashes and problems regarding its autonomous car prototypes were generated when the drivers of those vehicles were operating them manually.

According to Quartz, another Uber self-driving car prototype was spotted in Pittsburgh after what appeared to be the aftermath of an accident. The start-up company said that it had only encountered one incident with one of its self-driving vehicles, and that it was reported as the “lowest level.”

It is unclear what that means in Uber’s lingo, but we believe it refers to a fender-bender, or a few minor scratches on a bumper. The second incident is reportedly undocumented in Uber’s records so that human error might be at fault.

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About the author: Sebastian Toma
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Sebastian's love for cars began at a young age. Little did he know that a career would emerge from this passion (and that it would not, sadly, involve being a professional racecar driver). In over fourteen years, he got behind the wheel of several hundred vehicles and in the offices of the most important car publications in his homeland.
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