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Uber test vehicles involved in 37 crashes before fatal self-driving incident

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This is the spot where Elaine Herzberg was killed by a self-driving Uber in Tempe, Ariz., on March 18, 2018. Pedestrians use this median to watch for traffic from under the overpass. (PETE BIGELOW)
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November 05, 2019 08:18 PM

WASHINGTON -- Uber Technologies Inc.'s autonomous test vehicles were involved in 37 crashes in the 18 months before a fatal March 2018 self-driving car incident in Tempe, Ariz., the National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday.

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