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