Uber’s robotaxi partner crashed 16 times in four months. The regulator called it “excessively assertive and insufficiently capable.”

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into Avride, Uber’s autonomous vehicle partner, after identifying 16 crashes and one minor injury in the four months since the company launched its robotaxi service in Dallas. The regulator’s language is unusually blunt: the vehicles displayed “excessive assertiveness and insufficient capability,” a phrase that could […] This story continues at The Next Web