Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outside of a crosswalk
People jaywalk often, I feel like this issue should have appeared before. Would it be possible Uber was using some of Otto's technology (self-driving trucks) then decided to replace it abruptly (because of the lawsuit with Google) and it caused this seemingly avoidable crash?<p>Context: 
Uber acquired Otto, a company founded by Google Waymo's former CEO, Anthony Levandowski. It quickly got involved in a lawsuit where Google alleged that Lewandowski stole Waymo's self-driving intellectual property. Uber later agreed not to use any Waymo IP and give 0.34% of equity to Google.<p><a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/priya/waymo-asks-judge-to-halt-ubers-self-driving" rel="nofollow">https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/priya/waymo-asks-judge-...</a><p><a href="https://jalopnik.com/googles-waymo-and-uber-reach-settlement-in-high-profile-1822868808" rel="nofollow">https://jalopnik.com/googles-waymo-and-uber-reach-settlement...</a>