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Self-Driving Uber Car Kills Arizona Pedestrian via the NYTimes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/uber-driverless-fatality.html
First Pedestrain death at the "hands" of a self driving Uber Vehicle
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Comments
Statement from Tempe Police.
New Thread discussing whether or not Uber is at fault here: https://ride.guru/lounge/p/uber-likely-not-at-fault-in-deadly-self-driving-car-crash-police-chief-says
This is why we can't have nice things.
Could this be a defining moment? Were we setback 10 years due to this accident?
It would be a defining moment only if we never get an AV Uber. They'll come at some point.
Woah, Google Street View of the intersection where this all happened.
Wow, technology is freaky
AND....Uber has halted their autonomous car testing.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-19/uber-autonomous-car-involved-in-fatal-crash-in-arizona
it was only a matter of time.
Before we all freak out here, I think we need more information.
The fundamental question that needs to be asked is: would a human driver have been likely to avoid this?
And we just don't know. Though there was a human monitoring this ride, we have no idea if he was even paying attention, so that is not a good yardstick.
It was nighttime, it was dark. It could have been an impossible situation for all we know. I hope we get to see a detailed report eventually.
apparently the women was walking outside the crosswalk lines
source?
Statement from Tempe Police.
Really want to hear from Uber how this could have happened. I thought these cars were supposed to have super sensors that could see better than humans.
This is just terrible, that poor women. I wonder how much money her family is going to get.
Damn, this is tragic. Horrible. :(
Does it suck to be this person? "the first known death of a pedestrian struck by an autonomous vehicle on public roads." ...or honored.
Does this mean there've been deaths on private roads?
Wow, even had a human back up driver and this still happened...Can't trust robots.