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Self-Driving Vehicles 'Have Long Way To Go' After Fatality, Blumenthal Says Self-Driving Vehicles 'Have Long Way To Go' After Fatality, Blumenthal Says
Self-Driving Vehicles 'Have Long Way To Go' After Fatality, Blumenthal Says In the wake of a fatal crash involving a self-driving Uber car in Arizona, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut is calling on Congress to take steps to ensure autonomous vehicle technology can be implemented safely. Uber and other companies have been testing driverless cars for years in Arizona in an effort to move the technology forward. Over the weekend, one of those vehicles operated by Uber - with an emergency backup driver behind the wheel - struck and killed a woman on a street in Tempe, Ariz. Testing on the vehicles has since been suspended. In response to the fatal incident,…

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