Uber is not criminally liable in a March 2018 crash in Tempe, Arizona, in which one of the company's self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian, prosecutors said.
Investigators at the scene of a fatal accident involving a self-driving Uber car on the street in Tempe, Arizona.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Uber is not criminally liable in a March 2018 crash in Tempe, Arizona, in which one of the company's self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
The Maricopa County Attorney, whose jurisdiction includes Tempe, referred the case last year to another office because of a conflict. In Tuesday's letter Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Sullivan Polk said its investigation concluded that"the collision video, as it displays, likely does not accurately depict the events that occurred."
The exterior view of the self driving Uber vehicle leading up to the fatal collision with a woman in Tempe, Arizona.The Uber car was in autonomous mode at the time of the crash, but the company, like other self-driving car developers, requires a back-up driver inside to intervene when the autonomous system fails or a tricky driving situation occurs.
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