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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 All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday March 20 2018, @04:55PM (2 children)

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Tuesday March 20 2018, @04:55PM (#655482) Journal

    ..... In Arizona it may be true that the car can't be at fault. I might be wrong, but I think when I used to live in California the law was if you hit a pedestrian you are at fault, at all times and in all places. "The car is not at fault" would not be a legitimate statement there. Which may well mean that companies might venue shop for friendly testing environments.

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  • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday March 20 2018, @06:09PM (1 child)

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 20 2018, @06:09PM (#655528) Journal

    Uber did.

    They didn't want to accept the California regulations. Somehow I don't think California lost that they decided to test elsewhere. (Several companies, however, have accepted the California regulations. I think Nevada also has provisions for self driving cars being tested or used.)

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @07:35PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @07:35PM (#655582)

      We might guess that some CA regulators are patting themselves on the back. Their rules drove Uber to test in AZ and saved the life of a Californian (assuming that the Uber car would have eventually had a similar pedestrian accident in CA...)