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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @06:25AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @06:25AM (#655280)

    Nice, put it on the pedestrians. Drivers are often inattentive, drive too fast*, and are aggressive-- all the while feeling invincible because they are surrounded by tons of steel. The pedestrian is a grease spot waiting to happen. If the pedestrian could kill *you* by their actions, then you would have a right to complain, as it is, it is a certainty that you have come closer to killing a pedestrian while driving that any pedestrian has come to causing your death, unless that pedestrian was packing, and shot at you, but that is another thing entirely.

    I walk a lot. I've been almost killed by idiot drivers more times than I can count (cars running red lights, driving up onto the sidewalk while looking at their phones, blowing through intersections while pedestrians are in the cross walk, etc.) I've taken to carrying rocks to throw at the glass of vehicles that try to kill me, and once happened to have a bag of dog poop in hand at the right moment. Fuck car drivers, they are the problem, and the idiots who design terrible intersections / too wide of streets / too high of speed limits to make it as unsafe as possible for the pedestrians.

    *car - pedestrian collisions:
    40mph = 85% probability of death to pedestrian
    30 mph = 40% probability of death to pedestrian
    20 mph = 5% probability of death to pedestrian

    There are several 45 mph streets in front of schools in my town. This is fucking insane.