Uber self-driving car crashes into another car in Pittsburgh

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An Uber self-driving car collided with another vehicle in Pittsburgh on February 24 in an incident first reported by Pittsburgh's channel 11 last week. No one was seriously injured, but the incident caused serious damage to the vehicles. Uber and the driver disagree on exactly what happened in the seconds before the crash.

We called Matthew Becker, a Pennsylvania attorney who works on traffic cases. He said he couldn't say who was liable in the case without knowing more details. But he did tell us that "generally speaking, before you take a left-hand turn, you're required to ensure there's not traffic coming from the other direction."

The driver of the other car was Jessica McLemore, a mother of three children. She described the incident in a Wednesday interview with Ars Technica.

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