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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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 20 2018, @12:36PM (1 child)
I drive a car with more than 100 HP. Which is nothing by American standards, btw... That enough that if I look away from the speedo for a couple of seconds, the speed will easily climb from just below the speed limit to high enough to get a ticket (2 km/h over the limit).
Yet, for some strange reason, they expect me to spend more time looking at traffic and pedestrians, than I do looking at the speedo.
(Score: 2) by vux984 on Tuesday March 20 2018, @05:53PM
That's just it though. Speedometers read a touch low. So if you are intentionally keeping your speed at 60km/h as shown by the speedo, and then climb to 62km/h by accident you are still ok. The manufacturers deliberately calibrate the speedos to overestimate your speed.
The standard in the UK for examples is that a speedo must *never* show less than the actual speed, and must never show more than 110% of actual speed + 6.25mph. So at 100mph, its legal for your speedo to show anything from 100mph to 116.25mph. And from my (limited) experience most will probably show around 105-110. So if you are driving, and intentionally keeping it at 100mph as read by the speedo, you are *really* going mid-90s, and if you drift up to 102 now and again that's fine.
Plus most speed traps themselves give a small bit of grace; to account for their own potential for error, except they are calibrated 'the other way'. So your speedo is always overestimating your speed (to ensure it never reads lower than you really are going), and police radar is underestimating it to ensure they never give you a ticket when you are within the limit, and the upshot is that if your speedo says 2km/h over the limit, you should have nothing to worry about. Unless your speedo is broken.