The Talk of the Tape
The video of Sunday's collision has been released: WARNING IT IS A BIT GRAPHIC.
The video clearly show the vehicle was in the right most lane which means she crossed two other lanes to the point of impact. The bike was tossed with her to the sidewalk. She would have been taken to Tempe's St. Lukes Hospital nearest to the accident. Between the night vision, motion sensors, heat signature, and laser guidance, having that much information should have preformed better then the human driver. Also she was approximately 25 ft a light post, with a car passing her moments before - she was visible. She did not jump out from behind a bush. The vehicle never had it's emergency stop activated until the manual override happened. The driver, whom served years in prison for attempted armed robbery, was looking down which could have been a computer screen or a cell phone. The NTSB is going to have a field day with this. Intel, another company testing these vehicles, grounded their fleet in southeast Phoenix. My guess is Uber is thankful they hit a homeless women. No family for a multi-million dollar civil lawsuit. Sad but true.
No but the IEEE, I’m a member, is looking at their ethics policy and the group responsible for standards is mobilizing. These car are far more safer then a drunk driver. There are other issues with privacy and government possible government overreach. This subject is far more complicated then just this wreak.