Traffic passing an intersection just north of the location where a woman pedestrian was struck and killed by an Uber self-driving sport utility vehicle in Tempe, Arizona, US. The NTSB voted 3-0 that the probable cause was the failure of the back-up safety driver to monitor the driving environment 'because she was visually distracted throughout the trip by her personal cellphone'. — Reuters
WASHINGTON: A US safety agency on Nov 19 faulted Uber for inadequate attention to safety and decisions in the company's autonomous vehicle development in an investigation into the first-ever death involving a self-driving vehicle, which also cited the vehicle's distracted back-up driver.
The National Transportation Safety Board said state and federal regulators need to do more to safeguard drivers, noting a "lack of federal safety standards" for automated driving systems.
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