BOSTON — Self-driving cars are back on the road in Boston after the city lifted its week-long suspension of the vehicles following a crash that left a pedestrian dead in Arizona.
Boston’s transportation commissioner said the city is confident in the safety measures in place for self-driving cars being tested in the city.
Over the past week the city and Department of Transportation conducted a safety review of Nutonomy and Optimus Ride to ensure they are meeting all the safety measures the city requires for testing the self-driving vehicles.
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That includes taking that includes taking a closer look at the locations those cars are allowed to go, testing the emergency braking and stop functions on all vehicles and having a person in the driver's seat at all times who is ready to take over.
The companies have driven roughly 1,000 miles without any crashes and have been contained to the Seaport.
Boston has some of the nation's most rigorous testing regulations. That's the opposite of Arizona where the companies were allowed to test and operate largely unchecked.
It was 10 days ago when a woman was hit and killed by a self-driving Uber vehicle in Tempe, Arizona.
That state's governor suspended Uber from operating self-driving cars since the crash.
The crash is still under investigation, but preliminary reports show Uber was not at fault.
Dash cam video released last week showed the woman was walking in the dark, but it also showed the backup driver looking down right before the crash happened.
Uber announced after the crash that it was suspending all of its self-driving vehicle tests, and on Tuesday they said they would not renew their license in California to test those cars.
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