Uber will halt autonomous vehicle testing in California after fatal Arizona crash

Uber does not plan to continue testing autonomous cars in California as it faces fallout from one of its self-driving vehicles killing a pedestrian in Arizona. While Uber announced shortly after the accident that it would suspend its autonomous vehicle testing nationwide, a letter from the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) relayed the raid-hailing giant's plans to discontinue testing in California for the foreseeable future. "Uber has indicated that it will not renew its current permit to test autonomous vehicles in California", says a letter from deputy DMV director Brian Soublet to Uber. The company's authority to drive autonomous cars on public roads in California, first granted last March, expires at the end of this month. If it wants to secure a new permit after that, Mr Soublet wrote, the company "will need to address any follow-up analysis to investigations" from the Arizona crash.