- After a self-driving Uber vehicle was involved in an Arizona fatality, the technology is being questioned.
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Self-driving cars could be deadly — but they aren't going to affect Tesla's and Uber's business as much as everyone thinks (TSLA, GM)
A revolution in autonomous driving won't ultimately affect Tesla and Uber's business all that much.
A self-driving Uber vehicle killed a woman in Arizona last week in the first case of an autonomous car being involved in a fatality.
Much testing of self-driving technology has been put on hold while Uber and the authorities investigate the tragedy. And, discussion and debate about the future of autonomous driving has heated up. Some are calling for much higher government scrutiny and regulation of self-driving cars; Arizona has been singled out because with good year-round weather and excellent roads, along with a hands-off attitude toward testing, it's attracted many of the major players.
But others think that the genie has been released from the bottle. At an auto-finance conference in Las Vegas last week, Automotive News reported that General Motors President Dan Ammann said
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