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Uber then promptly paused its in-house autonomy program. In the years since, the company shifted from building self-driving technology itself to backing outside specialists. The source is a 2026 press article about Uber's later robotaxi investments, which recounts the crash only as background. 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Deployment context and lifecycle stage are not set because 'being tested' does not clearly establish evaluation versus other stages. Developer is not stated, so system fields are left out. Reversibility is not stated, so it is left out. 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