Uber Autonomous Car Crash

• Jaywalker on a street with a bicycle
  • Black clothes
  • No reflectors on their bicycle
• The automated driving system (ADS) detected the lady 5.6 seconds before the crash
  • Did not accurately classify the jaywalker as a pedestrian
  • Unknown <-> Pedestrian <-> Cyclist
    • ???
    • Car kept recalculating
• The driver of the car was on her phone, and not fully paying attention to the road
• There were software issues previously reported by other Uber employees
  • Incidents were ignored and logs were left unreviewed for weeks
• During testing, Uber
  • Removed sudden emergency braking
  • Reduced the number of supervisors in the test vehicles