A Lawsuit Against Uber Highlights the Rush to Conquer Driverless Cars

The headline really undersells the story.

The New York Times has internal Uber documents, confirmed by multiple Uber employees, showing that Uber lied to the public and to regulators by falsely claiming that a self-driving Volvo running a red light on the first day of its operation in San Francisco was caused by human error.

“Our self-driving technology required human intervention. The vehicle operator had time to intervene, but failed to take over before crossing the stop line and manually proceeded through the protected crosswalk.”

I believe this is exactly what people here predicted when Uber originally called it human error. Such a clumsy attempt at being grossly misleading while maybe not technically lying. It self-drove through a red light, just as was reported.