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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 Knowledge Troll on Tuesday March 20 2018, @08:08AM (1 child)

    by Knowledge Troll (5948) on Tuesday March 20 2018, @08:08AM (#655298) Homepage Journal

    I'm untrusting of the reporting on the topic of autonomous vehicles because there is a really strong narrative being pushed that the robot cars are safer than human drivers. This narrative is being pushed very hard and with out justification because the technology is simply too new. Objective criticism of the robot car actions is almost impossible - for some reason people don't fault the self driving car for driving like crap.

    Maybe it's because most people can't drive very well to begin with, I don't know, but criticism of these machines is extremely difficult even when they behave poorly.

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  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Thursday March 22 2018, @10:52AM

    by Wootery (2341) on Thursday March 22 2018, @10:52AM (#656548)

    Agree that there doesn't seem to be any serious analysis of this stuff - or if there is, no-one's talking about it.

    How safe are the autonomous cars really? It doesn't do to just look at fatalities per mile - that ignores not only non-fatal incidents, but also the fact that city driving (which Uber presumably disproportionately favours) isn't the equivalent of high-speed driving.

    If a decent study on this question exists, please point me to it!