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The driver was watching TV on her phone. She might still be charged. You're right that the bullet point list in your link doesn't have anything that applies to
by lozenge 8y ago
The driver was watching TV on her phone. She might still be charged.
You're right that the bullet point list in your link doesn't have anything that applies to uber, but there is no carve out in the negligent homicide law that says running over jaywalkers is legal. The prosecutor could have looked at:
* whether Uber was warned that having one operator instead of two would be unsafe (they were)
* whether having one operator to monitor the road and the software is inherently unsafe
* whether operators were told that the system would never emergency brake and never warn about needing to brake
* whether Uber reviewed footage to ensure operators were paying attention, whether they knew that operators weren't paying attention etc
I hope all of this will be in the NTSB report.
- masklinn 8y ago> The driver was watching TV on her phone. She might still be charged. Has that been conclusively established, rather than they were watching the central console where the automation they were also supposed to oversee is located?
- danielvf 8y agoYes, it was in the official police report. The driver was watching "The Voice" on Hulu at the time, and "...looked up just 0.5 seconds before the crash, after keeping her head down for 5.3 seconds while going 44 miles an hour".