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A Self-Driving Uber Car Went the Wrong Way On a One-Way Street in Pittsburgh (qz.com)

Posted by msmash on from the that's-how-it-begins dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Uber driver Nathan Stachelek was pulled off to the side of the road when he saw the self-driving car turn the wrong way. It was the night of Sept. 26 and the car he had spotted, one of the autonomous Ford Fusions that Uber is testing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was heading through the city's Oakland neighborhood, just steps from the center of campus for the University of Pittsburgh. Stachelek watched the car turn off Bates Street and onto Atwood, a one-way road, going in the wrong direction. From a distance he couldn't tell whether the car was driving itself, or its human operator had made a mistake. Stachelek took out his phone in time to shoot a brief video of Uber's vehicle backing up and driving away, then uploaded it to Facebook. "Driverless car went down a one way the wrong way," he wrote. "Driver had to turn car around."

3 of 254 comments (clear)

  1. What Do You Mean The Wrong Way? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It was going down a one-way street, right? Well it WAS going one way!

    I don't see the problem here.

  2. other possibility... by Lead+Butthead · · Score: 4, Funny

    perhaps it became self aware, and was trying to commit suicide to escape an existence in bondage?

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    ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
  3. stop the presses and ban all self-driving cars... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    and this is newsworthy because no human has ever driven the wrong way down a one way street... [eye roll]