(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 27, 2017 an Uber self-driving car drives down 5th Street on March 28, 2017 in San Francisco, California. The race to perfect robot cars continues despite fears kindled by the death of a woman hit by a self-driving Uber vehicle while pushing a bicycle across an Arizona street. Uber put a temporary halt to its self-driving car program in the US after the fatal accident this month near Phoenix, where several other companies including Google-owned Waymo are testing such technology. / AFP PHOTO / Getty Images North America / JUSTIN SULLIVAN / With AFP Story by Ian TIMBERLAKE: US-lifestyle-internet-automobile-Uber,foucs
Will robot cars be our saviours or the new hazard on the road?
Let's ask the million or so people who have seen the dashboard cam video of a self-driving vehicle hitting Elaine Herzberg, killing her the night of March 19 in Tempe, Arizona. The footage shows the driver was not paying attention when the Volvo SUV, equipped with Uber's autonomous-vehicle (AV) system, failed to respond to the sudden appearance of a human being in the middle of the road.
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