By Veronika Bondarenko The company was recently valued at around $8.5 billion after a $400 million investment from Toyota. Along with electric vehicle engines catching fire, an accident with self-driving cars can do a lot of damage to the company’s image and rollout. When a self-driving Uber (UBER) – Get Uber Technologies, Inc. Report SUV caused the 2018 death of Elaine Hertzberg in Arizona, the company suspended pilot testing and did not renew its self-driving vehicles amid a public outcry and criticism from the National Transportation Safety Board. There have also been multiple stories of Te…