Police chief said Uber victim “came from the shadows”—don’t believe it
by Timothy B. Lee from Ars Technica - All content on (#3JY5B)
Enlarge / A frame from Brian Kaufman's video shows the spot where Elaine Herzberg was killed. (credit: Brian Kaufman)
On Sunday night, an Uber self-driving car killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona. A key argument in Uber's defense has been that the road was so dark that even an attentive driver would not have spotted Herzberg in the seconds before the crash.
Herzberg "came from the shadows right into the roadway," Tempe police chief Sylvia Moir told the San Francisco Chronicle on Monday. "The driver said it was like a flash."
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