Episode 30, The strange case of death by Uber in Arizona
The Weekly Driver Podcast by James Raia and Bruce Aldrich
Episode notes
Nearly two weeks after a woman was killed by an autonomous Uber vehicle while walking her bicycle across the street at night and outside of a crosswalk in Tempe, Ariz., much is still unknown about the accident.
What is known is that the Governor of Arizona has ended the state's autonomous vehicle testing program.
The Volvo SUV used as an autonomous Uber vehicle in Tempe, Arizona, that killed a woman pushing a bicycle late at night and outside of a crosswalk.
The auto-parts maker that supplied the radar and camera on the Volvo SUV that killed the woman has stated they had disabled the standard collision-avoidance technology in the vehicle.
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board have been investigating the case since.
The local police chief initially called the incident "unav ...
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