The world`s biggest car caller, autonomous car-related companies are shutting down their test operations one after another as a result of the first pedestrian fatalities in Uber.

Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp. and Japanese automaker noTonomy said on Monday that they have stopped testing autonomous vehicles on Monday, Bloomberg reported.

Toyota spokesman Brian Leons said in an e-mail statement, "We decided to suspend the test run of the autonomous vehicle on which the driver is boarding because pedestrian fatalities may have an emotional impact on our test drivers." As a result, the test drive of the autonomous driving vehicle in the state of California,

Toyota did not disclose the size of the self-propelled vehicle that was under test. The Toyota autonomous drive vehicle is said to have increased in recent years.

Meanwhile, noTonomy also said it will temporarily suspend the test run of the autonomous vehicle that was being conducted in Boston, USA.

It has accepted the request of the municipal transport authorities to stop operations on public roads in Boston. "We are in discussions with the municipal authorities to ensure that the company`s autonomous vehicle test runs continue to meet high safety standards," Nanto Nomi spokesman said. Nitonomi, founded by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States in 2013, began pilot testing of the world`s first autonomous taxi in Singapore in August 2016.

The decision to abandon these companies was due to Uber`s autonomous car killing a 40 - year - old woman who ran a bicycle at an intersection in Phoenix, Arizona, on the 19th. This is the first time a pedestrian has been killed in connection with a test run of an autonomous vehicle. Shortly after this incident, Uber completely halted the trial run of his autonomous car from Phoenix, Arizona, San Francisco, California, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Toronto, Canada.

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