“Our self-driving technology required human intervention. The vehicle operator had time to intervene, but failed to take over before crossing the stop line and manually proceeded through the protected crosswalk.”<p>I believe this is exactly what people here predicted when Uber originally called it human error. Such a clumsy attempt at being grossly misleading while <i>maybe</i> not technically lying. It self-drove through a red light, just as was reported.
The headline really undersells the story.<p>The New York Times has internal Uber documents, confirmed by multiple Uber employees, showing that Uber lied to the public and to regulators by falsely claiming that a self-driving Volvo running a red light on the first day of its operation in San Francisco was caused by human error.