Industry Baffled On How Uber Fatality Happened

Parts supplier Velodyne Lidar Inc. has come out against Uber Technologies following the release of video footage showing one if its autonomous test vehicles fatally striking an Arizona woman this week. Marta Thoma Hall, president of Velodyne, said she was confused as to why the autonomous SUV failed to see 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg crossing the street.

Velodyne, which supplies autonomous sensing equipment to many of the world’s automotive and tech firms (including Uber), is currently cooperating with federal investigators to determine what happened in Tempe, Arizona, on Sunday evening.

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MDarringer - 3/26/2018 10:24:53 AM

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How are they baffled? The hardware and software failed. The oinker behind the wheel was watching food porn. How is any of this a mystery? This stance is 100% a PR move to pretend it was just an unfortunate accident rather than what it was: negligence. The technology was not ready, but they put it on the road anyway.

vdiv - 3/26/2018 10:39:46 AM

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This means regulation was not ready. There were no tests performed by any official to certify that the vehicle is ready, meaning the system identifies objects and responds to them correctly, what any human driver goes through to get a license.

stiffy - 3/26/2018 12:00:10 PM

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Was volvo's own pedestrian detection feature disabled / overridden by another system or did thet ran in parallel?

MDarringer - 3/26/2018 1:20:54 PM

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disabled is my understanding