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Vehicle malfunction, if it was a driver malfunction. driver error. thats part of the ongoing investigation. >> reporter: just last month, the vehicles chassis, suspension, brakes and overall systems were tested. it failed that state inspection, and the driver should have had a cdl or commercial drivers license. he didnt. >> i think the owner of this company has a lot of questions to answer. theres an ongoing investigation. but is there a possibility of liability? civil and criminal? certainly. >...

Collect $50 for every ounce and charge 6% on retail sales. generating $700 million in new tax revenue. heather: crash bringing uber self-driving cars to a screeching halt. clayton: lauren simonetti from fox business here with the business headlines, good morning, lauren. lauren: good morning, bad news for uber, temporarily stopping self-driving car test in california, pennsylvania and arizona after one of the suvs crashed on friday. take a look at the crash scene right here. the uber volvo suv o...

Arkansas atonamous cars on the market, you may remember the driver of a self-driving tes last killed last year -- tesla was killed last year, after being hit by a tracker trailer. >> theory if you remove the driver, you remove driver error, there are several defects to that theory. the automation has to work, if it does not worker then what? reporter: one problem, another is how do you make sure that a car driving itself can react to other driver drivers mistakess a work in progress. arthel: i d...

To suspend self driving cars in arizona, pittsburgh and send it to her for the time being. uber has shifted itself driving test cars to arizona because governor doug ducey has been a big proponent of technology and the same regulations. the accident also comes as a number of companies are racing to get the self driving cars on the market. uber google, ford motor cintas are all running tests on the roads right now. the self driving test that was killed last year after he was hit by a tractor-trai...

Case, although the attorneys are always there with their hand out and they love these cases. >> well, it was such a horrific death, though, because apparently paul walker survived the impact of the crash and then the car caught on fire and he died as a result of the fire. >> right. very sad. but looking at it, porsche is saying the car was imimproper maintained, had after-market components on it. the fuel line burst was due to the impact, had nothing to do with the fuel line. investigators are c...

Doesnt have any mechanical issues so we havent ruled anything out at this point and we dont know if its driver error or if the driver fell asleep or what the situation is. >> what are the family members saying right now? >> its a tragedy due to the loss of the driver of the vehicle and the mother of the child, but theyre grateful that this infant was able to survive throughout the night. theyre very grateful for the very courageous and heroic actions taken by the police officers and firefighters...

His 2007 pontiac g5 locked into a turn on this slight curve, hit this very tree, and ben died. >> even if i would have yanked there, i dont think that quickly i would have hit that tree. >> reporter: ben here had been drinking the night before but stayed overnight with friends before driving home about noon on a sunday. he was traveling just five miles over the speed limit on a wet road when it happened. police blamed driver error. >> this is him. he was a pharmacy technician. >> reporter: here ...

He was traveling just 5 miles over the speed limit on a wet road when it happened. police blame driver error. >> this is him. he was a pharmacy technician. >> reporter: he was a smart student, a star swimmer, and a soon-to-be pharmacist. he was also brenda and gordons only child. >> its still hard to believe how it happened. >> reporter: and theres been no official believable explanation? >> thats true. >> we just thought it was a horrible accident until i received the letter from gm in septembe...

That situation. it points to the fact this is, you know, whether were talking about a few dozen or a few hundred deaths, we have about 30,000 auto fatalities a year. the overarching cause is driver error. a big part of that decline over the last several decades is regulation and engineering as you describe. its also changes in norms where people, theres a stronger norm in favor of wearing seat belts than there used to be. theres a stronger norm against drunk driving. people feel thats an immoral...

Simply a public relations problem. >> reporter: the justice department says toyota first blamed driver error and then admitted floor mats could trap the gas pedal in some models. but in january 2010 abcs brian ross aired the story of a runaway toyota in new jersey that could not be blamed on either the driver or the floor mats. >> it just took off. it just took off, it seemed like the more i hit the brakes the harder it wanted to accelerate. >> reporter: it turned out some toyotas also had stick...