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Uber Self-Driving Car Tests Resume Three Days After Crash

The ride-hailing company resumed testing in San Francisco Monday morning.

Uber Self-Driving Car Tests Resume Three Days After Crash
The Uber Technologies Inc. application is used for navigation on a smartphone during an Uber ride in Washington, D.C. (Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) 

(Bloomberg) -- Uber Technologies Inc.’s self-driving cars were back on public roads Monday, three days after a crash in Arizona put the company’s testing program on hold.

The ride-hailing company resumed testing in San Francisco Monday morning, and planned to restart the program in Tempe, Arizona, and Pittsburgh later in the day, according to an Uber spokeswoman.

One of Uber’s Volvo self-driving SUVs was involved in a high-impact crash on Friday in Tempe. The vehicle was not responsible for the incident and there were no injuries, Tempe police said. Another car failed to yield for the Uber car, causing the autonomous vehicle to flip on its side, according to the police report.

Uber paused testing after the incident over the weekend to better understand what happened. The company said it was confident in returning the vehicles to the road on Monday.

To contact the reporter on this story: Alistair Barr in San Francisco at abarr18@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Jillian Ward at jward56@bloomberg.net, Andrew Pollack, Molly Schuetz