Police Say Uber Is Likely Not at Fault for Self-Driving Car Fatality in Arizona
My takeaway from the comments in this thread: self-driving Ubers don&#x27;t drive defensively, almost surely can&#x27;t &quot;read&quot; pedestrian behavior, and even with lidar may never have seen Elaine Herzberg. Oh, and they speed.<p>This sounds like straight out of the &quot;hell&quot; scenario for driverless cars: &quot;we cannot accept responsibility for what happens to pedestrians and cyclists foolish enough to stray out of their designated safe zone&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m referencing Robin Chase (the Zipcar founder)&#x27;s &quot;heaven or hell&quot; framing - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.citylab.com&#x2F;transportation&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;will-world-driverless-cars-be-heaven-or-hell&#x2F;8784&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.citylab.com&#x2F;transportation&#x2F;2014&#x2F;04&#x2F;will-world-dr...</a><p>For a recent, thoughtful talk about the damage self-driving cars might do to the city if we are not careful, see this Congress for the New Urbanism talk about &quot;Autonomous Vehicles &amp; The Good City&quot; at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=utnPEbDNbrE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=utnPEbDNbrE</a><p>It&#x27;s also worth mentioning that there&#x27;s a bill (AV START, or S. 1885) in the current Senate that would actually preempt local and state regulation of autonomous car safety, but it has been put on hold.