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Self-Driving Uber Cars Are Back In San Francisco, But Just For Map-Gathering
Self-Driving Uber Cars Are Back In San Francisco, But Just For Map-Gathering-July 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:10:40

Remember Uber’s little dust-up in San Francisco over its self-driving car pilot program? (Jeez, that was—what—) Well, the ride-hailing giant’s autonomous vehicles are back in the city, but they’re only being manually driven, according to reports. Boring.

reports the company still doesn’t have permission from California’s Department of Motor Vehicles to use the autonomous functions—that would cost —but a handful of Ford Fusion hybrids with the self-driving gadgetry have been redeployed to San Francisco. The company last month shipped the fleet of autonomous vehicles to Arizona, whose governor is giddy about the tech giant’s efforts, after California regulators shut down the pilot project over Uber’s .

California regulators have ordered Uber to stop its brand new self-driving ride-sharing service in…

An Uber spokesperson told USA Today that the Fusions are being use for the company’s efforts to gather road mapping data.

“They are being driven manually at all times and their self-driving systems are disabled,” the spokesperson said.

Hopefully those drivers are .

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