- Self-Driving Uber Car Kills Arizona Pedestrian by NY Times. Incredibly sad to hear.
- Earning Aeroplan on Amazon? by Points Hogger. This is for Amazon.ca only, not Amazon.com unfortunately. Up to 3 miles per $1 spent depending on your elite status.
- My bumbling experiments with US Bank’s Real-Time Mobile Rewards by Frequent Miler. Well worth a read as always.
- Meat Expert Guesses Cheap vs Expensive Deli Meats | Price Points | Epicurious. They had a similar one on cheese as well. Really enjoying this series, they do a good job of explaining why the more expensive product is more expensive (e.g the ingredients and processes they go under vs the cheap one). This helps you understand what to look for and why. It’s also extremely non judgmental as well (e.g the cheap one is good to use in XYZ situation).
This is going to be a great opportunity for people to draw poor conclusions. Driverless cars can not operate outside the world of physics. If a person unsafely crosses a street, they are going to get hit by a car no matter what. Is there any reason to think that having a driver (which the car did have) would have made a difference? If anything, it probably would have been going considerably more over the speed limit.
I’m sure driverless cars are already overall safer.
I wonder whom is on the hook for a driverless car and what essentially is a accidental homicide when a backup driver was also involved. Uber? The car manufacturer tech? The backup human driver? Very sad to hear either way but I do see potential in the tech when implemented safely
Not quite, the pedestrian is also potentially at fault here. Without more info we won’t know. So far it looks like the person did not use a crosswalk and if they just stepped out into the roadway without checking for traffic the pedestrian could be at fault. I’m not saying they will, just that this is a possibility.
“walking with her bicycle on the street” per the quoted news story.
Yes, in Arizona this could be the case. There are about nineteen “pedestrian’s rights states” where motor vehicles must always yield to pedestrians, no matter where they are. Arizona is not such a state.
You intrigued me… For anyone else intrigued check your state’s rules here (idk on the accuracy): http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/pedestrian-crossing-50-state-summary.aspx
Exactly. Threw me when I read that because other articles referenced her crossing the street. NYT is technically correct either way but the inference here is that she was not crossing the street just walking along side of it and that turns this into a whole different story imho- we just won’t know until authorities release their info. They should have camera footage of the tragic event so they should be able to tell us what actually happened and obviously fault will be determined from there.
This accident happened on N Mill Ave & Curry Rd. I lived in Tempe for a few months. These Uber cars circle around Tempe all the time, and I was almost ran over by it on S Mill Ave & Uni at least once. It was really just a matter of time until these 10-year-olds would hit someone, IMHO.
Yikes! That sounds miserable!
This seems like one of test cases that everyone is waiting for.
I’ve heard it mentioned that it will take the better part of a generation before enough case law is generated to allow real car companies to sell to the public.
In the meantime it will be tech companies and VC funds paying the fines, suits, lawyers and politicians. Only losers are the humans..