Uber not criminally liable after self-driving car killed woman: U.S. prosecutor
“to reduce the potential for erratic vehicle behavior,” according to a report from the National Transportation Safety Board.Uber said the person behind the wheel, Rafaela Vasquez, was expected to act in such situations. But video footage from inside the SUV showed she was distracted at the time and investigators later said she was watching an episode of “The Voice” on her phone at the time of the accident.
Vasquez said at the time that she didn’t see Herzberg and that Herzberg “came out of nowhere.” Polk’s office has returned the case to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office to determine if Vasquez will face any criminal charges, which“This Office has concluded that the collision video, as it displays, likely does not accurately depict the events that occurred. We therefore recommend that the matter be furthered to the Tempe Police Department to obtain additional evidence,” Polk wrote Tuesday.
Herzberg’s family filed a $10 million lawsuit against the city last month, accusing officials of paving a section of the road to look like a crosswalk. “[The site of the accident] has a brick pathway cutting through the desert landscaping that is clearly designed to accommodate people to cross,” the claim reads.Uber stopped testing its self-driving vehicles in Arizona after the accident but has focused on a smaller program in Pittsburgh. Each car in that test
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