Uber Wants to Resume Self-Driving Car Tests on Public Roads

Uber Wants to Resume Self-Driving Car Tests on Public Roads
The Tempe Police Department shows an Uber SUV after hitting a woman in Tempe, Ariz, on March 18, 2018. Tempe Police Department/AP
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DETROIT—Nearly eight months after one of its autonomous test vehicles hit and killed an Arizona pedestrian, Uber wants to resume testing on public roads.

The company has filed an application on with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to test in Pittsburgh, and it has issued a lengthy safety report pledging to put two human backup drivers in each vehicle and take a raft of other precautions to make the vehicles safe.