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On 14 December 2016, a video purportedly showing a driverless Uber running a red light in San Francisco appeared and was quickly circulated on social media: According to the San Francisco Examiner, the footage was taken by a dashboard camera of a Luxor cab: While the video does show an Uber vehicle driving through a red light, it was not initially clear whether the vehicle was self-driven at the time. The cameras at the top of the vehicle indicate that it is capable of operating without a driver, but such vehicles can still be driven by humans. Uber said in a statement to TechCrunch that the incident was unequivocally due to human error: Later in the afternoon of 14 December 2016, the state of California's Department of Motor Services ordered Uber to halt its self-driving car rides, effective immediately, as its autonomous vehicles were operating without the proper permits: It came out a few months later by way of a report from the New York Times that although Uber had said this traffic violation was due to human error, the vehicle was, in fact, driving itself at the time of the incident. The newspaper spoke to two anonymous employees and viewed internal company documents which stated that Uber's mapping program failed to recognize not one, but six traffic lights in San Francisco: In March 2018, a self-driving Uber hit and killed a woman in Arizona. The company pulled its self-driving vehicles off the roads shortly after the incident.
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