Pedestrian Struck And Killed By Uber Autonomous Car
Uber has halted its North American autonomous testing programme following a fatality involving one of the ride-sharing firm’s specially-adapted Volvo XC90s.
While running in autonomous mode - with a safety operator behind the wheel - the vehicle hit 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg, who was pushing a bicycle across the road in Tempe, Arizona on Sunday night. She was taken to hospital, but later died from her injuries. It’s thought to be the first fatal accident involving an autonomous car and a pedestrian.
According to local police, Herzberg was not using a pedestrian crossing at the time of the accident. Uber says that it is “fully cooperating” with authorities, while CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said: “We’re thinking of the victim’s family as we work with local law enforcement to understand what happened.”
This isn’t the first time Uber has temporarily taken its autonomous cars - which are also tested in Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Toronto - off the road. In March last year, the company temporarily suspended the test programme after one of the modified XC90s crashed into anther car and flipped onto its side in Tempe. The other vehicle had failed to yield, highlighting one of the problems with testing autonomous vehicles amidst regular traffic.
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Autonomous cars are just dumb.
Which of the two, Uber or Volvo, is gonna get lawsuits?
Uber, Volvo doesn’t supply the autonomous system
Skynet has begun to wiped out humans
This is why autonomous cars are stupid! If you look to Top Gear S23, they did a news piece where Jeremy asked a question about autonomous cars and explained an experiment that was held to simulate the behavior of driverless vehicles. Scientists put monkeys and their babies in a box and heated the floor of the box up. The monkeys held the babies in their arms even though the floor was hot as heck. Then the floor got unbarebly hot and then the monkeys put the babies down and stood on them. This is what will happen to autonomous cars one day.
I truly feel sorry for the loss of life that happened during that accident but looking at it statistically it actually wasn’t that bad…hear me out … one person unfortunately lost their life but autonomous testing has been going on for approximately 2 years or more and there has only been a few fatal accidents as opposed to the thousands that die each year to drunk or distracted drivers the systems obviously aren’t perfect but they haven’t put in a lot of people in danger and again to a certain degree it was human error because the driver standing by didn’t do anything so people honestly just need to stop blaming autonomous driving vehicles
This is why we shouldn’t have autonomous cars.
It’s not like humans never cause any accidents huh?
after creating the first AI, scientists asked it (the AI) if there was a God. To which it replied: There is now.
Programing a human brain into a car is probably not easy
anther
BLAME GOOGLE