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In 2016, Ducey welcomed Uber with "open arms and wide open roads" as the company sought alternatives to California's regulatory environment.

An Uber spokesman, Matt Kallman, said the departure was unrelated to the crash in Tempe, but he would not elaborate on why Mr. Ron had left or the timing of his exit.

"We do not think this will affect our schedule", Price said in an email.

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The Uber spokesperson says the company is unable to comment on details of the crash. While the system will work only on roads that are fully autonomous, "the communications and calculations we've developed will enable autonomous cars to zip through intersections at full speed or with just a minor slow-down". Experts told The Associated Press that the technology on Uber's vehicle should have spotted (name her) the pedestrian and the failure revealed a serious flaw.

The crash, which occurred late at night in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe, killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg as she was walking her bicycle across a dimly lit city street.

However, the company was dealt a blow on March 26 when Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona called the crash "an unquestionable failure" and suspended Uber's ability to test self-driving cars on public roads throughout the state, reports Reuters. The Japanese automaker owns a stake in Uber, though it hasn't disclosed the size of it. Toyota is also working with Uber and other partners including Amazon.com Inc.to develop fleets of self-driving delivery vans scheduled to debut in 2020.

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Uber representatives Sarah Abboud and Matthew Wing separately responded to queries from the AP about a possible settlement by saying the San Francisco-based company is declining to comment.

A brief mention of the autonomous vehicle tests was made at the time in an Arizona Capitol Times that states, "self-driving cars are already being tested on Arizona roads", but it made no mention of Uber. Both companies, along with other technology firms involved in the development of self-driving vehicles, have stated that they will be waiting for the results of the recent incident's investigation before they decide to continue their public tests and experiments. "While California puts the brakes on innovation and change with more bureaucracy and more regulation, Arizona is paving the way for new technology and new businesses".

The governor's self-driving oversight committee met for the first - and only - time in August 2016.

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The death toll was growing at a terrifying speed while dozens of people, including children, were initially announced missing. It has a parking lot for 250 cars, shops, a bowling, a children's center, a cinema, and a petting zoo, according to TASS .

The fallout from the accident could stall the development and testing of self-driving vehicles, created to eventually perform far better than human drivers and to sharply reduce the number of motor vehicle fatalities that occur each year.