First fatal crash in self driving car (UBER)

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SAN FRANCISCO — A woman in Tempe, Ariz., has died after being hit by a self-driving car operated by Uber, in what appears to be the first known death of a pedestrian struck by an autonomous vehicle on a public road.

The Uber vehicle was in autonomous mode with a human safety driver at the wheel when it struck the woman, who was crossing the street outside of a crosswalk, the Tempe police said in a statement. The episode happened on Sunday around 10 p.m. The woman was not publicly identified.

Uber said it had suspended testing of its self-driving cars in Tempe, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Toronto.


“Our hearts go out to the victim’s family. We are fully cooperating with local authorities in their investigation of this incident,” an Uber spokeswoman, Sarah Abboud, said in a statement.

The fatal crash will most likely raise questions about regulations for self-driving cars. Testing of self-driving cars is already underway for vehicles that have a human driver ready to take over if something goes wrong, but states are starting to allow companies to test cars without a person in the driver’s seat. This month, California said that, in April, it would start allowing companies to test autonomous vehicles without anyone behind the wheel.

Autonomous cars are expected to ultimately be safer than human drivers, because they don’t get distracted and always observe traffic laws. However, researchers working on the technology have struggled with how to teach the autonomous systems to adjust for unpredictable human driving or behavior.

An Uber self-driving car was involved in another crash a year ago in Tempe. In that collision, one of Uber’s Volvo XC90 sport utility vehicles was hit when the driver of another car failed to yield, causing the Uber vehicle to roll over onto its side. The car was in self-driving mode with a safety driver behind the wheel, but police said the autonomous vehicle had not been at fault.

In 2016, a man driving his Tesla using Autopilot, the car company’s self-driving software, died on a state highway in Florida when it crashed into a tractor-trailer that was crossing the road in front of his car. Federal regulators later ruled there were no defects in the system to cause the accident.

The National Transportation Safety Board was sending a small team of investigators to Arizona to gather information about the Uber crash, said Eric Weiss, an N.T.S.B. spokesman.

source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/uber-driverless-fatality.html



get out them damn teslas and self driving ubers yall.

 

[iDon’tRead]

So does the human get vehicular manslaughter

 

[danikerhino]

Back to the drawing board.

 

[Bert.]

massive lawsuit against uber?

this doesn't look good for them

 

[Mister Meaner]

Unfortunately, these things are going to happen if we're to get to the point of truly safe autonomous cars. The tech/society ain't ready yet.

 

[Nawzlew]

reality is people die in car accidents everyday

there needs to be more regulation though

 

[ninjahood]

so who's responsible is da question...you can't sue a robot.

 

[hipstermike]

I would much rather robots drive every car instead of humans

Even though I do enjoy driving

I would give up driving if everything was robots

 

[AZwildcats]

I was just in Tempe this weekend too, RIP to that woman

 

[hipstermike]

What’s the big deal over 1 death? 96 people a day on average die by gun and there’s barely any regulation.

 

[htg designs]

so who's responsible is da question...you can't sue a robot.

sue whoever put the battery in his back

 

[2oh6ridah]

Skynet... It has begun.

 

[ninjahood]

I would much rather robots drive every car instead of humans

yea...u buggin, they gonna have to pry da steering wheel out my cold dead fingers.

*shivers*

 

[ninjahood]

96 people a day on average die by gun

a human is behind da trigger.

you got a robot behind da acceleration pedal...if accountability aint establish, you millennials gonna have to learn how to drive like everyone else.

 

[hipstermike]

a human is behind da trigger.

you got a robot behind da acceleration pedal...if accountability aint establish, you millennials gonna have to learn how to drive like everyone else.

Why do you assume I’m a millennial?

 

[ninjahood]

Why do you assume I’m a millennial?

you was meant as a general statement, but by all means, if da shoe fits wear it.

 

[hipstermike]

you was meant as a general statement, but by all means, if da shoe fits wear it.

You sound worse than the Russian bots on twitter in 90% of your posts

You were probably in the pool of 50 million accounts that were paychoanalyzed on FB

 

[whatscomplex]

So does the human get vehicular manslaughter

They're saying the person was jaywalking and came out of nowhere, and it would have been unavoidable regardless of whether the car was autonomous or not.

"likely" not Ubers fault, probably the victim's fault, and not ruling out the possibility of it being the back up driver's fault. That seems to be their direction right now according to this article below.

http://www.businessinsider.com/temp...-at-fault-fatal-self-driving-car-crash-2018-3

 

[adobecs4]

a human is behind da trigger.

you got a robot behind da acceleration pedal...if accountability aint establish, you millennials gonna have to learn how to drive like everyone else.

You can't be much older than me, making you a millennial as well.

 

[ninjahood]

They're saying the person was jaywalking and came out of nowhere, and it would have been unavoidable regardless of whether the car was autonomous or not

hardly true...NYC da jay walkin capital of da world, people not gettin ran over en masse.

 

[ninjahood]

You sound worse than the Russian bots on twitter in 90% of your posts

You were probably in the pool of 50 million accounts that were paychoanalyzed on FB

keep this trash in da political thread.

 

[hipstermike]

keep this trash in da political thread.

Maybe don’t make assumptions about people you don’t know

 

[calibeebee]

 

[you go boy]

dont see the purpose of self driving cars and dont think it would work... theres just too many variables... only time it could be useful is after a night of heavy drinking

 

[Thats My Word]

Don’t worry, uber will release an official statement and say it was the human driver’s neglect.