- 20 Mar 2018 17:19
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Time to ban assault cars!
It's almost like no one predicted this would happen. Even though the pedestrian always has the right away, somehow police say that the accident was not the car's (Uber's) fault.
Which is weird because anti-2nd Amendment extremists always blame the gun whenever someone shoots another person.
Uber Victim Stepped Suddenly in Front of Self-Driving Car
It's almost like no one predicted this would happen. Even though the pedestrian always has the right away, somehow police say that the accident was not the car's (Uber's) fault.
Which is weird because anti-2nd Amendment extremists always blame the gun whenever someone shoots another person.
Uber Victim Stepped Suddenly in Front of Self-Driving Car
Police say a video from the Uber self-driving car that struck and killed a woman Sunday shows her moving in front of it suddenly, a factor that investigators are likely to focus on as they assess the performance of the technology in the first pedestrian fatality involving an autonomous vehicle.
The Uber had a forward-facing video recorder, which showed the woman was walking a bike at about 10 p.m. and moved into traffic from a dark center median. "It’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode,” Sylvia Moir, police chief in Tempe, Arizona, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
"The driver said it was like a flash, the person walked out in front of them," Moir said, referring to the backup driver who was behind the wheel but not operating the vehicle. "His first alert to the collision was the sound of the collision."
The chief’s account raises new questions in the investigation that holds importance to the future of the burgeoning autonomous vehicle industry. Uber Technologies Inc. halted autonomous vehicle tests in the wake of the accident.
It’s too soon to draw any conclusions from the preliminary information that has emerged, said Brian Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who has studied autonomous vehicle liability.