Uber's Self-Driving technology has rocky start

 In a report of internal information received from Uber by Recode.com attests that Uber’s current iteration of their self-driving cars need to have human assistance approximately once every mile.










The official statistic quotes all of Uber’s autonomous fleet having drove a grand total of 20,354 miles throughout multiple tests across the US, and human intervention was needed when the car leaves it’s autonomous mode approximately once every 0.8 miles. 
To send the vehicle out of ‘autonomous mode’, according to Uber it needs to encounter ‘unclear lane markings’, ‘the system overshooting a turning’ or when ‘driving in inclement weather’ or when it encounters something known as a ‘critical intervention’. These can be classed as situations when the driver needs to take control in potentially harmful situations such as when the car is hitting a person (...No!) or if the car is due to cause more than $5,000 property damage - assumedly so they can then put the onus of the damage on the human will be forced to take over.

This is all pointing to the suggestion that Uber’s autonomous driving technology hasn’t exactly come along leaps and bounds in the year since it began testing - especially after the initial block from many US cities to even let Uber test the technology on their roads.

The current state of their technology cannot be helped but compared to Google’s Waymo, as their car’s system can currently be seen to be much more refined and effective that Uber’s - if not similar. This came to a head when Waymo have asked a judge to order Uber to freeze all of their driverless-car tech due to a currently pending lawsuit alleging that Uber’s autonomous heads stole the designs of the car sensors.