Uber says he's ready to start testing self-driving cars again

Seven months after a fatal accident involving a self-driving car in Arizona, Uber said she was ready to get her cars up and running again.

The company released a new safety report after asking the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for permission to begin testing its self-driving vehicles on public roads in Pennsylvania.

In the report, Uber detailed a series of changes made to the safety after the March fatal accident. The company announced that it would now place two human operators in each autonomous vehicle, one to sit behind the wheel and the other to monitor the system from the passenger seat.

"We deeply regret the accident that occurred in Tempe, Arizona in March," said Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi in a blog post. "In the following months, we conducted a thorough review of ATG's safety approaches, system development and culture.

"We have taken a measured, step-by-step approach to resuming road tests, starting with manual driving in Pittsburgh, and we have committed to delivering this safety report before returning to the stand-alone driving test, and then we will come back to the road only when we have implemented improved processes ".

If Uber gets this approval, it will be the first time that the company will be able to test its autonomous cars on public roads since the March disaster. (The company had previously obtained clearance to return the vehicles on the road to Pittsburgh, but only in "manual mode", in which they are driven as any other car.) The Accident , which occurred in Tempe, Arizona, caused a number of concerns regarding the reliability of Uber's autonomous cars.

Investigators found that the car's system did not warn the driver of the pedestrian on the road, even though its sensors had detected it. And the car did not slow down or brake after the woman was detected. The driver, who was supposed to monitor the road, also later discovered that he was monitoring Hulu at the time of the accident.