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Unintentionally killing somebody is manslaughter. I guess there is no such thing as 'attempted manslaughter', unlike murder. If somebody had died it could have

• DannyBee 9y ago
  The law school answer is "there is no attempted manslaughter", but in some states, it really does exist due to statute. Example: https://www.justia.com/criminal/docs/calcrim/500/603.html https://www.justia.com/criminal/docs/calcrim/500/603.html
• briandear 9y ago
  There would have to be a reasonable expectation that one’s actions would cause death. Whether we think that their actions would reasonably cause death or not wouldn’t matter, what matters is what could be proven. There would have to be evidence that Uber knew that there was a “reasonable” chance of death. That’s would be a very tough bar to reach in a courtroom. A “chance” of death wouldn’t be good enough, but the “likeliness” of death. Under US law there is no real case. Even on the civil side, there wasn’t anybody injured and financial damages to the victim would be minimal, so it would be a case that would go nowhere.