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Uber settles with family of victim in fatal self-driving vehicle accident
- noemit 9y agoI wish they were forced to release amounts in settlements. I wanna know numbers!
- AnatMl2 9y agoI was surprised they didn't share more details. The settlement has been reached, why wouldn't they disclose the numbers?
- gamblor956 9y agoTo avoid establishing a baseline for future incidents. And also to avoid being judged on the amount at which they settled.
- AnatMl2 9y agoThat makes sense, thanks for your answer!
- noemit 9y agomost settlements get covered by NDA's to protect the defendant.
- DrScump 9y agoWow, that was fast.
- lmilcin 9y agoThere are some very uneasy questions regarding this case. I'm not surprised they do what they can to stop prodding into it.
- janemanos 9y agoThe stallement of the further development of autonomous cars seems rather a marketing thing on Toyota and Uber side than actual analysis of what happens. Still think that self-driving cars are already much safer than a human behind the wheel. As Musk said, it is not difficult to get to 99.9%, the important things is to get to 99.99999% of accuracy and reliability
- mmgutz 9y agoHow do you know this? From the video I saw, the advanced sensors didn't pick up the pedestrian at all. I would have expected some braking forcing the human driver to move forward abruptly. It would have been interesting to see the tail end of the video before impact to see if the car made any evasive moves at all. It wasn't evident to me the AI was 99.9% better in that situation.
- ShadowFaxSam 9y agoTragic accident and I hope the family was taken care of. I have been biking as a means of transportation most of my life and it is quite common to cross roads without crosswalks similar to the victim here. Scary to think the car coming down the road may not have a human driver watching out for any obstacles.
- GarrisonPrime 9y agoIt should be said that a settlement is in no way an acknowledgement of culpability. It's just a hell of a lot easier to not even get into a case at all, for everyone.
- gethesmane 9y ago"Victim's family agrees to gag order in fatal self-driving vehicle accident" would have been a better title. The terms of the settlement were not given. The law firm representing Herzberg’s daughter and husband, whose names were not disclosed, said they would have no further comment on the matter as they considered it resolved.