>There was a person at the wheel. That person wasn't paying full attention to the road. From the video of the crash, it looks like the woman at the wheel was lo

>There was a person at the wheel. That person wasn't paying full attention to the road. From the video of the crash, it looks like the woman at the wheel was looking at their phone. >Why is no one acknowledging that this woman was responsible for taking over the wheel if necessary for any reason. The woman was part of their safety program, but ultimate responsibility for the effectiveness and failures of said program lies with them. For instance, Other driver assist programs (eg, Cadillac) have eye tracking and hand sensors in the wheel. If your eyes leave the road or hands leave the wheel escalating alarms are initiated until driver assist is deactivated. This is a technology that takes into account normal human behavior. Uber did not do this. Uber previously used two person teams, to minimize tedium and lapses in awareness that emerge when a single person as the job of staring out an uneventful window for hour(s) at a time. This is a policy that takes into account normal human behavior. They did not do this. Either or both of these could have prevented this death. Both of these decisions occur at a level above the proximal driver-pedestrian interaction.