NHTSA probing Uber partner Avride over crashes, TechCrunch reports

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened a probe into Avride, a robotaxi company that has partnered with Uber (UBER), after identifying 16 collisions and one minor injury, TechCrunch’s Sean O’Kane reports. The regulator’s Office of Defects Investigation said that all the crashes it identified are related to the “competence of” Avride’s self-driving systems, which seems to struggle with changing lanes, responding to other vehicles in the same lane, and reacting to stationary objects, O’Kane says.