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Self-Driving Uber in Crash Wasn’t Designed to See Jaywalkers
- U.S. safety board releases documents on fatal 2018 accident
- Pedestrian hit, killed by experimental self-driving Uber car
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Uber Technologies Inc.’s self-driving test car that struck and killed a pedestrian last year wasn’t programmed to recognize and react to jaywalkers, according to documents released by U.S. safety investigators.
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday released more than 400 pages of reports and supporting documents on the March 2018 crash that killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg as she walked her bicycle across a road at night in Tempe, Arizona.