Uber Had DISABLED Crash Avoidance System Prior Fatal Tempe Crash

Uber disabled the standard collision avoidance technology in the Volvo XC90 that struck and killed a woman in the U.S. last week, according to Aptiv, the partsmaker that supplied the vehicle's radar and camera.

"We don't want people to be confused or think it was a failure of the technology that we supply for Volvo, because that's not the case," Zach Peterson, a spokesman for Aptiv, said. The Volvo XC90's standard advanced driver-assistance system "has nothing to do" with the Uber test vehicle's autonomous driving system, he said.

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MDarringer - 3/27/2018 10:20:10 AM

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Big lawsuit!!

stiffy - 3/27/2018 10:35:22 AM

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Just as I suspected.

The Volvo system works very well as tested by Euroncap, it even comes with a pedestrian airbag. Redundant systems are critical in the world of IT! Why on earth would they have disabled this? Overconfidence in their own product?

MDarringer - 3/27/2018 11:21:22 AM

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I'm thinking $100 million.

atc98092 - 3/27/2018 12:01:27 PM

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This article didn't state it, but another I read this morning also said that this is standard procedure for all of the autonomous test vehicles. They don't want the car's system "fighting" the system under development.

So, nice click bait, but not some stunning revelation.