Uber Halts Self-Driving Car Tests in Arizona After Friday Night Collision (businessinsider.com)

"Given that the Uber vehicle has flipped onto its side it looks to be a high speed crash," writes TechCrunch, though Business Insider reports that no one was seriously injured. An anonymous reader quotes their report: A self-driving Uber car was involved in an accident on Friday night in Tempe, Arizona, in one of the most serious incidents to date involving the growing fleet of autonomous vehicles being tested on U.S. roads... Uber has halted its self-driving-car pilot in Arizona and is investigating what caused the incident... A Tempe police spokesperson told Bloomberg that the Uber was not at fault in the accident and was hit by another car which failed to yield. Still, the collision will likely to turn up the temperature on the heated debate about the safety of self-driving cars.

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Re: What happened next was even worse

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't be silly...Uber isn't raping anybody. Uber is just trying to innovate here.

Right now only the passenger can give the driver oral sex, but what if the driver wants to give the passenger oral sex too? Thus you need self driving capability. Just think about it: You no longer need to jack off before work, instead somebody else does it for you on the way to work while you check your email. This saves a lot of time off of your busy day by doing three things at once.

Isn't the gig economy wonderful?