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Uber Pulls Self-Driving Cars After First Fatal Crash of Autonomous Vehicle

posted by Fnord666 on Monday March 19 2018, @10:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the bound-to-happen dept.

vux984 writes:

A self-driving Uber SUV struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona. It was in autonomous mode at the time of the collision, with a vehicle operator behind the wheel. Uber has suspended testing of its self-driving cars.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/19/technology/uber-autonomous-car-fatal-crash/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/uber-driverless-fatality.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/self-driving-uber-kills-arizona-171055918.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/19/594950197/uber-suspends-self-driving-tests-after-pedestrian-is-killed-in-arizona
https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-suspends-driverless-car-program-after-pedestrian-is-struck-and-killed-1521480386
https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/19/17139518/uber-self-driving-car-fatal-crash-tempe-arizona
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/19/uber-self-driving-test-car-involved-in-accident-resulting-in-pedestrian-death/

I couldn't find any good analysis of the liability situation here.

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  • (Score: 2) by Nuke on Monday March 19 2018, @11:40PM (2 children)

    by Nuke (3162) on Monday March 19 2018, @11:40PM (#655191)

    The idea of self-driving cars is being pushed on the claim that they are safer than human driven ones and that no infrastrucure changes will be required to accomodate them. But there you go already.

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  • (Score: 2) by pendorbound on Tuesday March 20 2018, @03:35PM (1 child)

    by pendorbound (2688) on Tuesday March 20 2018, @03:35PM (#655423) Homepage

    Self-driving cars don't have to be all that safe to be "safer" than human drivers. The accident stats for all self-driving cars to date back that up. Given the number of total miles driven by self-driving cars, human drivers would statistically have caused far more accidents and deaths.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @05:05PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @05:05PM (#655492)

      > human drivers would statistically have caused far more accidents and deaths.

      Sorry, I don't give a rat's ass about the stats for the total driving population. I want the self driving car to be better/less accidents than my demographic niche. I don't drink and drive, I'm not a teenager and I've been to advanced driving schools--I do my racing off the public roads. My strong suspicion is that my demographic is a good order of magnitude safer than the general average. That's the target I want to see before I hand off driving to an AI.