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The Information also reported in August that Waymo’s self-driving cars often struggle with even basic, everyday driving maneuvers including stopping in intersections during turns, holding at stop signs for over three seconds, and merging into heavy traffic.

Waymo’s June crash followed a much more severe self-driving crash back in March, where a pedestrian was struck and killed by a self-driving Volvo XC90 operated by Uber’s self-driving unit in Tempe, Arizona, while the human driver watched a television show on her phone. The crash caused Uber to considerably scale back its self-driving program, shutting down its Arizona operation completely.

It’s unclear if Waymo disabled the Chrysler Pacifica’s standard safety features, which includes a forward collision warning and emergency braking system, but Uber had disabled the car’s standard safety features on the XC90 involved in the Arizona crash, presumably to avoid conflict with its own systems.