![]() Their preliminary findings were substantiated by multiple event data recorders and proved the vehicle was traveling 43 miles per hour (69 km/h) when Herzberg was first detected 6 seconds (378 feet (115 m)) before impact during 4.7 seconds the self driving system did not infer that emergency braking was needed. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) sent a team of federal investigators to gather data from vehicle instruments, and to examine vehicle condition along with the actions taken by the safety driver. ![]() According to Tempe police the car was traveling in a 35 mph (56 km/h) zone, but this is contradicted by a posted speed limit of 45 mph (72 km/h). Īccounts of the crash have been conflicting in terms of the speed limit at the place of the incident. The county district attorney's office recused itself from the investigation, due to a prior joint partnership with Uber promoting their services as an alternative to driving under the influence of alcohol. The self-driving Uber Volvo XC90 involved in the collision, with damage on the right front side Vehicle telemetry obtained after the crash showed that the human operator responded by moving the steering wheel less than a second before impact, and she engaged the brakes less than a second after impact. The car's human safety backup driver, Rafaela Vasquez, did not intervene in time to prevent the collision. The vehicle had been operating in autonomous mode since 9:39 pm, nineteen minutes before it struck and killed Herzberg. She was pushing a bicycle laden with shopping bags, and had crossed at least two lanes of traffic when she was struck at approximately 9:58 pm MST ( UTC−07:00) by a prototype Uber self-driving car based on a Volvo XC90, which was traveling north on Mill. Herzberg was crossing Mill Avenue (North) from west to east, approximately 360 feet (110 m) south of the intersection with Curry Road, outside the designated pedestrian crosswalk, close to the Red Mountain Freeway. The Arizona incident has magnified the importance of collision avoidance systems for self-driving vehicles. A reporter for The Washington Post compared Herzberg's fate with that of Bridget Driscoll who, in the United Kingdom in 1896, was the first pedestrian to be killed by an automobile. While Herzberg was the first pedestrian killed by a self-driving car, a driver had been killed by a semi-autonomous car almost two years earlier. The back-up driver of the vehicle was charged with negligent homicide. On March 2019, Arizona prosecutors ruled that Uber was not criminally responsible for the crash. Uber chose not to renew its permit for testing self-driving vehicles in California when it expired at the end of March 2018. The company suspended testing of self-driving vehicles in Arizona, where such testing had been sanctioned since August 2016. įollowing the fatal incident, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a series of recommendations and sharply criticized Uber. Herzberg was taken to the local hospital where she died of her injuries. Herzberg was pushing a bicycle across a four-lane road in Tempe, Arizona, United States, when she was struck by an Uber test vehicle, which was operating in self-drive mode with a human safety backup driver sitting in the driving seat. The death of Elaine Herzberg (Aug– March 18, 2018) was the first recorded case of a pedestrian fatality involving a self-driving car, after a collision that occurred late in the evening of March 18, 2018. Mike Herzberg (until his death) Rolf Erich Ziemann (until Elaine's death) Apache Junction High School, Apache Junction, Arizona įirst pedestrian to be killed by a self-driving car
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