Monday, May 7, 2018

Report: Uber's Vehicle Detected, But Ignored Human In Road

A report, published Monday, says that the fatal collision which killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona on March 18th was a result of software which was set to ignore objects--including, apparently, humans--in the road. According to the report, the software detected Elaine Herzberg, the woman hit and killed by Uber's self driving vehicle, but decided it was a "false positive" and not an object in the road that it should avoid--resulting in her death.