UBER Autopilot hit a man

A rather unpleasant incident occurred in the USA. A self-driving UBER vehicle was found to be responsible for the death of a pedestrian...
In Tempe, Arizona, a self-driving Uber vehicle fatally struck and killed a person—the first known case of a pedestrian death under such circumstances. After the incident, Uber suspended testing of driverless cars throughout the United States. But, according to local police, the car is not to blame for the incident. The San Francisco Chronicle reports this, citing the words of the head of the local police department, Silva Moir. “I suspect that preliminary data suggests that Uber is not the culprit,” the official says. The pedestrian, 49-year-old Elaine Herzog, was driving a bicycle loaded with shopping bags across the road in the dark, crossing the line of traffic, before the accident. After reviewing the video, which was captured by cameras mounted on the car, Moir concludes that under such conditions it would be difficult for a car to avoid colliding with a pedestrian - no matter who was driving the vehicle, a person or a robot. Because the pedestrian came “out of the shadows straight onto the roadway.” Crossing the roadway at night in the wrong place instead of a lighted crossing is in any case dangerous, Tempe police emphasize. On the other hand, according to police, the car was traveling at 38 mph in a 35 mph zone (61 km/h and 56 km/h respectively), although according to Google Street View data from last July, this The speed limit on this section of the road is 45 miles per hour (about 72 km/h). Also, according to police, there is no indication yet that the car slowed down in front of the pedestrian.
Author: GEximius