(FILES) In this file photo taken on September 13, 2016 a pilot model of an Uber self-driving car travels in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Uber said on March 19, 2018, it is cooperating with police following a deadly accident involving one of the ride-share company's self-driving cars in Arizona. The Uber vehicle was in autonomous mode, with an operator behind the wheel, when it hit a woman walking in the street in the city of Tempe, according to the San Francisco-based company. / AFP PHOTO / Angelo Merendino
Police say a video from the Uber self-driving car that struck and killed a woman on Sunday shows her moving in front of it suddenly, a factor that investigators are likely to focus on as they assess the performance of the technology in the first pedestrian fatality involving an autonomous vehicle.
The Uber had a forward-facing video recorder, which showed the woman was walking a bike at about 10pm and moved into traffic from a dark centre median. “It’s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode,” Sylvia Moir, the police chief in Tempe, Arizona, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
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