23 MAR

Video suggests huge problems with Uber’s driverless car program

There’s something very wrong with Uber’s driverless car program.

On Wednesday night, police released footage of Sunday night’s deadly car crash in Tempe, Arizona, where an Uber self-driving car crashed into 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg. The details it reveals are damning for Uber.

“The idea that she ‘just stepped out’ or ‘came out in a flash’ into the car path is clearly false,” said Tara Goddard, an urban planning professor at Texas A&M University, after seeing the video. “It seems like the system should have responded.”

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