Self-driving Uber that killed pedestrian reportedly didn’t realize she was human

The 49-year-old woman struck and killed by a self-driving Uber vehicle in Arizona earlier this year was detected by the autonomous vehicle’s sensors, but the car didn’t avoid her due to an improper software setting, according to a Monday report from the Information. 

Elaine Herzberg was hit on a March night while walking a bicycle across a main thoroughfare. The Uber vehicle with an operator in the front seat was in autonomous mode at the time of the crash. “Two people briefed about the matter” told the Information that the software in the car detected the woman, but there was a problem with how the software decides how to react to objects. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Self-driving Uber that killed pedestrian reportedly didn’t realize she was human