Uber's self-driving cars apparently back on the road in San Francisco 3 days after crash

Uber's self-driving car program has had a rough time of it lately, but the company isn't going to let anything keep it off the road for long.

An autonomous Uber vehicle was involved in a high-profile accident in Tempe, Arizona, over the weekend, prompting the company to pull its fleet of self-driving cars off the roads there and in its other testing regions in Pittsburgh and San Francisco. An Uber spokesperson told Mashable shortly after the news broke that the program was being paused while the company looked into the incident.

Uber appears to be satisfied with little more than a quick investigation, as a company spokesperson told Reuters that the autonomous pilot program was back up and running in San Francisco as of Monday morning. The cars in Pittsburgh and Arizona are expected to be back on the road "soon."

The San Francisco program was given the go-ahead to restart before the other locations in part because it's still only in development mode, according to Reuter's source. There are only two cars logging miles there, and they don't pick up passengers.

The California city, which serves as Uber HQ, was famously the site of their failed standoff with the state DMV, which led a company move to Arizona. Uber finally conceded to California's registration requirements at the beginning of the month.

All reports indicate that a human driver in another car was at fault for the accident, and no one was injured in the crash.

Still, fast-tracking self-driving cars back into service isn't the best look for Uber—earlier this month, leaked documents showed the cars have struggled to drive for even a mile without human intervention, and the integrity of the technology has been called into question by a lawsuit from Alphabet over stolen secrets.

An Uber spokesperson confirmed via email that the self-driving programs in Arizona and Pittsburgh would also be up and running again before the end of the day.

The company could've conducted a full investigation, publicly reported the results, and cleared itself of any questions of impropriety or cutting corners (on this matter, at least). Instead, using spokespeople to share the news without an official company statement doesn't give the public much insight about what actually happened.

UPDATE: March 27, 2017, 6:08 p.m. EDT This article has been updated to include Uber's response.