Uber had disabled emergency braking in fatal self-driving crash

An Uber car involved in a deadly crash in Arizona wasn’t designed to automatically brake in case of an emergency, the National Transportation Safety Board said......»»

The NTSB released preliminary findings. Uber Technologies Inc.'s self-driving system detected the woman who was struck and killed by one of the com.....»»

Uber is shutting down its self-driving car testing program in Arizona, following a fatal crash in March by an Uber SUV on autonomous mode which struck and killed a homeless woman. Jane Lanhee Lee reports......»»

Uber hopes to resume testing this summer. Uber Technologies Inc. is permanently shutting down self-driving testing in Arizona as federal authorities investigate a fatal collision with a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona — one of.....»»

Uber Technologies Inc.’s self-driving vehicle wasn’t programmed to stop for obstructions in its path, including the pedestrian it struck and killed last March in Arizona, according to federal investigators......»»

The victim was walking a bike across a road and had methamphetamine and marijuana in her bloodstream, according to investigators......»»

Prosecutors with Maricopa County have handed off the investigation into a fatal crash involving a self-driving Uber vehicle to another investigator because of a potential conflict of interest with the San Francisco-based company. KTAR.com reports the Ya.....»»

GizmodoUber Driver in Fatal Tempe Crash May Have Been Watching The Voice Behind the WheelGizmodoThe crash of an Uber self-driving car that kil.....»»

Police said that the crash was 'entirely avoidable.' The driver behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber that struck and killed a woman in Tem.....»»

The person behind the wheel of the Uber self-driving Volvo SUV that struck and killed a woman in Arizona was likely streaming "The Voice" on a cellphone at the time of the incident......»»

Police say the driver looked down inside the vehicle more than 200 times and her smartphone was streaming NBC’s “The Voice" in the run-up to the crash......»»

TechCrunchUber safety driver of fatal self-driving crash was watching Hulu, not the roadTechCrunchA safety driver operating an Uber self-driving vehicle looked down at a phone that was streaming The Voice on Hu.....»»

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi admitted in a staff meeting this week that his ride-sharing company is partially at fault after a woman was killed by a self-driving Uber car in Tempe. "We have screwed up," Khosrowshahi told staff members Tuesday, accordin.....»»

Getty Uber is close to putting its self-driving cars back on the road, according to a New York Times report .....»»

An email warning Uber executives about safety problems regarding its self-driving SUV was sent less than a week before a 49-year-old woman was killed in Tempe in March. The Information and TechCrunch are reporting a former Uber Technologies Inc. .....»»

The fatal crash May 5 was the latest of four U.S. deaths involving the electric car company's Autopilot partially-automated driving system......»»

Tesla has said it believes someone was driving the car when it crashed and that Autopilot was not engaged. Local a.....»»

On Monday, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk made a remark about his company’s automated driving systems’ involvement in a fatal crash.....»»

"The interior of the vehicle was more or less intact which kind of gave him the cushion to survive what otherwise would've been a fatal crash," said Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva. 2021 Genesi.....»»

One arm of the federal government has been supportive of autonomous driving tests. But that approach has come in for a scathing attack after a fatal Uber accident in 2018......»»