First person killed by self driving car

First person killed by self driving car
03/18/2018 AD killed by

Herzberg was crossing Mill Avenue (North) from west to east, approximately 360 feet (110 m) south of the intersection with Curry Road, outside the designated pedestrian crosswalk, close to the Red Mountain Freeway. She was pushing a bicycle laden with shopping bags, and had crossed at least two lanes of traffic when she was struck at approximately 9:58 pm MST (UTC−07:00) by a prototype Uber self-driving car based on a Volvo XC90, which was traveling north on Mill.

The vehicle had been operating in autonomous mode since 9:39 pm, nineteen minutes before it struck and killed Herzberg.

The car's human safety backup driver, Rafaela Vasquez, did not intervene in time to prevent the collision.

Vehicle telemetry obtained after the crash showed that the human operator responded by moving the steering wheel less than a second before impact, and she engaged the brakes less than a second after impact.

Following the fatal incident, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a series of recommendations and sharply criticized Uber. The company suspended testing of self-driving vehicles in Arizona,[5] where such testing had been sanctioned since August 2016.

Uber chose not to renew its permit for testing self-driving vehicles in California when it expired at the end of March 2018. Uber resumed testing in December 2018.

On March 2019, Arizona prosecutors ruled that Uber was not criminally responsible for the crash.

The back-up driver of the vehicle was charged with negligent homicide.

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