Pittsburgh Is Falling Out of Love With Uber's Self-Driving Cars (engadget.com)

A worn-out welcome: The city rolled out the red carpet as a host to Uber's driverless car experiments, but nine months later its mayor and residents have built up a list of grievances with the public-private partnership. From a report: While our experience in one of the autonomous vehicles was thankfully pretty safe, it wasn't long before reports of accidents and wrong-way driving began to surface during the first month of the operation. Nine months later, the relationship continues to sour, according to a report in the New York Times. The things Uber promised in return for the city's support -- including free rides in driverless cars, backing the city's $50 million federal transportation grant and jobs for a neighborhood nearby Uber's testing track -- have not materialized. The situation was an issue during the mayoral primary, too, with critics calling out incumbent Bill Peduto for not getting these agreements in writing from the ride-sharing company.

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Uber not playing nice?

[grasshoppa]

A company who seems to actively seek out litigation, who's demonstrably not a team player, is not following through on their verbal commitments?

I'm shocked, SHOCKED.

DOT will need to set standards for map data format

[Joe_Dragon]

DOT will need to set standards for

* Map data formats
* smart traffic light systems
* road markings
* parking lot markings
* define who is liable
* rules to say that all logs / source codes must be given up in a court case or the manufacturer is 100% liable.

Rules for the systems.
* Minimum Free update times for software / maps at least 5-8+ years and by free that means with bigger hdd's / new cpus are needed then they must be installed free of change.
* free data (entertainment does not need to be part of this) with fringe roaming covered.
* no forced dealer service and no locking of 3rd party lights / batterys / oil changes / etc.

Re:Wrong way is normal for Uber

[Maxo-Texas]

/facepalm

You do not 'wisely' pass erratic drivers to get away from them. You stay behind them.

See your story as an example of why you should not do this.

Many accidents are avoidable. Even tho the Lyft driver was not at fault, the Lyft driver could have avoided the accident entirely.