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I think I'll wait for the dust to settle a bit here, since it's hard to tell what happened. This is the wreck photo from the local news, showing a damaged bike

I think I'll wait for the dust to settle a bit here, since it's hard to tell what happened. This is the wreck photo from the local news, showing a damaged bike on the sidewalk, and an Uber robo-car with front passenger-side damage, sitting in the right lane: https://sharing.wcpo.com/shareknxv/photo/2018/03/19/poster_9a81719b494548d9a5bf094b2b006940_81457909_ver1.0_640_480.jpg https://sharing.wcpo.com/shareknxv/photo/2018/03/19/poster_9... It's hard to square that with someone darting over from a brushy median on the driver's side of the car. Hopefully NTSB will grab the sensor data and sort things out. EDIT: This could get ugly... https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe-breaking/2018/03/19/woman-dies-fatal-hit-strikes-self-driving-uber-crossing-road-tempe/438256002/ https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe-breaking/20... tl;dr -- A homeless woman was walking her bike across the road. "Safety driver" of the robo-car may have a record for attempted armed robbery. Uber disputes the driver's identity.

orangecat 9y ago
This is the wreck photo from the local news, showing a damaged bike on the sidewalk, and an Uber robo-car with front passenger-side damage, sitting in the right lane This looks like the corresponding street view: https://www.google.com/maps/place/N+Mill+Ave+%26+E+Curry+Rd,+Tempe,+AZ+85281/@33.4369934,-111.9429875,3a,75y,122.09h,74.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1scUyILaxFs5z63AL2SupCJw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x872b0931b4d9dd05:0x5d55a20356caaf8!8m2!3d33.4377022!4d-111.9433046 https://www.google.com/maps/place/N+Mill+Ave+%26+E+Curry+Rd,... It's hard to square that with someone darting over from a brushy median on the driver's side of the car. One possibility is that the pedestrian was trying to cross to the weird sidewalk/median thing and came out from behind the tree here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/N+Mill+Ave+%26+E+Curry+Rd,+Tempe,+AZ+85281/@33.4368426,-111.9428855,3a,75y,122.62h,68.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sGt1A7NT492ThtfPSH0zrdA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x872b0931b4d9dd05:0x5d55a20356caaf8!8m2!3d33.4377022!4d-111.9433046 https://www.google.com/maps/place/N+Mill+Ave+%26+E+Curry+Rd,... "Safety driver" of the robo-car may have a record for attempted armed robbery. Uber disputes the driver's identity. Good grief. I would normally be surprised if a company denied a claim like that without having solid evidence, but Uber would be much less surprising.

orangecat 9y ago

This is the wreck photo from the local news, showing a damaged bike on the sidewalk, and an Uber robo-car with front passenger-side damage, sitting in the right lane This looks like the corresponding street view: https://www.google.com/maps/place/N+Mill+Ave+%26+E+Curry+Rd,+Tempe,+AZ+85281/@33.4369934,-111.9429875,3a,75y,122.09h,74.47t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1scUyILaxFs5z63AL2SupCJw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x872b0931b4d9dd05:0x5d55a20356caaf8!8m2!3d33.4377022!4d-111.9433046 https://www.google.com/maps/place/N+Mill+Ave+%26+E+Curry+Rd,... It's hard to square that with someone darting over from a brushy median on the driver's side of the car. One possibility is that the pedestrian was trying to cross to the weird sidewalk/median thing and came out from behind the tree here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/N+Mill+Ave+%26+E+Curry+Rd,+Tempe,+AZ+85281/@33.4368426,-111.9428855,3a,75y,122.62h,68.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sGt1A7NT492ThtfPSH0zrdA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x872b0931b4d9dd05:0x5d55a20356caaf8!8m2!3d33.4377022!4d-111.9433046 https://www.google.com/maps/place/N+Mill+Ave+%26+E+Curry+Rd,... "Safety driver" of the robo-car may have a record for attempted armed robbery. Uber disputes the driver's identity. Good grief. I would normally be surprised if a company denied a claim like that without having solid evidence, but Uber would be much less surprising.