Mobileye says its software would have seen pedestrian in Uber fatality

FILE PHOTO: Amnon Shashua, co-founder of Israeli start-up Mobileye, is seen during an interview with Reuters at his second high-tech company, OrCam, makers of a wearable device which provides visual aid for visually impaired people, at their office in Jerusalem March 28, 2017. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

SAN FRANCISCO: The head of Mobileye said on March 26 its computer vision system would have detected the pedestrian who was killed in Arizona by a self-driving Uber vehicle, and called for a concerted move to validate the safety of autonomous vehicles.

Amnon Shashua, chief executive officer of Mobileye, the vision system company owned by Intel Corp, in a blog post also criticised "new entrants" in the self-driving field that have not gone through the years of development necessary to ensure safety in the vehicles.