IIHS faults Uber for deactivating Volvo's automatic emergency braking in fatal crash

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In a report Tuesday, the IIHS said that Uber's decision to turn off active safety gear in its Volvo XC90 self-driving test vehicle contributed to the death of a pedestrian in Arizona in March. According to an NTSB report, Uber deactivated Volvo's automatic emergency braking system in order to test its own experimental self-driving technology. That...

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