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UH-OH: Woman Killed By Uber Self-Driving Car

Hank Berrien

On Monday, the Tempe, Arizona police department announced that an Uber self-driving vehicle in Arizona had struck and killed a 49-year-old woman in the middle of the night Sunday night.

Uber said it would suspend its autonomous vehicle program tests of all its autonomous vehicles in Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Toronto and the greater Phoenix area. A company spokeswoman said, “Our hearts go out to the victim’s family. We are fully cooperating with local authorities in their investigation of this incident.”

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