Uber to Resume Self-Driving Car Tests in Pittsburgh After Hiatus

Uber had previously been pushing to get a fully autonomous vehicle on the roads by year-end, part of its mad dash to keep abreast of rival Alphabet Inc. GOOGL -3.16% But those plans were derailed when an Uber car struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Ariz., in a March incident that some safety experts have said was avoidable. Uber on Thursday will send out just a handful of the self-driving vehicles on a fixed one-mile route between two of its offices in Pittsburgh. It is home to the company's largest testing and development center and one of the three cities where it had been experimenting with the cars. The runs are limited to the daytime during weekdays and speeds no more than 25 miles an hour.