A self-driving Uber car struck and killed a pedestrian in Arizona, police said Monday.
Following up on my earlier tweet, Uber car was in autonomous mode with a human safety driver and it struck a woman (not a bicyclist) who walked into street. She has died. We think this is the first pedestrian killed by an autonomous vehicle. Uber is cooperating. Story coming
— Daisuke Wakabayashi (@daiwaka) March 19, 2018
This is believed to be the first such fatality of its kind.
The self-driving Uber car was in “autonomous” mode with an operator behind the wheel at the time of the collision.
Uber has temporarily paused all of its self-driving vehicles across the country following the incident in Tempe.
Fox News reported that Tempe Police Sgt. Ronald Elcock said the woman was walking “outside of a crosswalk” when she was hit.
She died after being taken to a nearby hospital, police said.
Here is a video of the self-driving Uber vehicles in San Francisco:
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