Video released of Uber self-driving crash that killed woman in Arizona
by Sam Levin in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#3JT4A)
New footage of the crash that killed Elaine Herzberg raises fresh questions about why the self-driving car did not stop
Video of the first self-driving car crash that killed a pedestrian showed how the autonomous Uber failed to slow down as it fatally hit a 49-year-old woman walking her bike across the street.
The newly released footage of the collision that killed Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona, on Sunday night has raised fresh questions about why the self-driving car did not stop when a human entered its path and has sparked scrutiny of regulations in the state, which has encouraged testing of the autonomous technology.
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