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Uber Self-Driving Car Kills Pedestrian in Arizona

An Uber self-driving test vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona — the first fatal autonomous vehicle crash. Investigation found the vehicle's safety system had detected the pedestrian but classified her as a 'false positive' and disabled the emergency braking system. The backup s…

Confidence
80%
Sources
1
Entities
1
Detected
1 Jan 2018

Event summary

An Uber self-driving test vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona — the first fatal autonomous vehicle crash. Investigation found the vehicle's safety system had detected the pedestrian but classified her as a 'false positive' and disabled the emergency braking system. The backup s…

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Linked entities

  • Uber

    organisation | 72%

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