Uber Backup Driver Faces Homicide Charges in Fatal 2018 Arizona Crash September 16, 2020 By David Shepardson The back-up safety driver behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber Technologies test vehicle that struck and killed a woman...
No Criminal Liability for Uber in Fatal 2018 Arizona Self-Driving Car Crash March 6, 2019 By David Shepardson Uber Technologies Inc. is not criminally liable in a March 2018 crash in Tempe, Arizona, in which one of the...
Why Not Just Retrain Pedestrians to Make Self-Driving Vehicles Safer? August 17, 2018 By Jeremy Kahn You’re crossing the street wrong. That is essentially the argument some self-driving car boosters have fallen back on in the...
Uber Disabled Brake of Self-Driving Car in Arizona Fatal Crash May 25, 2018 By David Shepardson Uber had disabled an emergency braking system in a self-driving vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Arizona in...
Uber Settles with Family of Victim of Driverless Accident March 29, 2018 By Bernie Woodall The family of the woman killed by an Uber Technologies Inc. self-driving vehicle in Arizona has reached a settlement with...
Human Influence Makes Autonomous Vehicle Programming Unsafe: Professor March 29, 2018 The way autonomous vehicles are currently being programmed may not be safe because the programs are copying humans, according to...
Uber Cut Back on Safety Sensors on Volvo Involved in Fatal Accidents: Reuters March 27, 2018 By Heather Somerville, Alexandria Sage and Paul Lienert When Uber decided in 2016 to retire its fleet of self-driving Ford Fusion cars in favor of Volvo sport utility...
Driverless Vehicle Makers Reach Feared Crossroad with Uber Fatality March 20, 2018 By Polly Mosendz, Mark Bergen and Dana Hull Last week, Waymo showed a video of people riding in its self-driving minivans. They thumbed their phones, yawned and one...
Uber Halts Autonomous Vehicle Testing After Arizona Accident March 26, 2017 By Eric Newcomer and Mark Bergen Uber Technologies Inc. is suspending its self-driving car program after one of its autonomous vehicles was involved in a high-impact...