{"id":1238,"date":"2018-03-19T18:46:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T18:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2018-03-19T19:00:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T19:00:48","slug":"uber-ceo-halts-autonomous-car-testing-after-fatal-crash-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/uber-ceo-halts-autonomous-car-testing-after-fatal-crash-in-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber CEO Halts Autonomous-Car Testing After Fatal Crash in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Uber_autonomous_vehicle_prototype_testing_in_San_Francisco.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1239\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Uber_autonomous_vehicle_prototype_testing_in_San_Francisco-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Uber_autonomous_vehicle_prototype_testing_in_San_Francisco-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Uber_autonomous_vehicle_prototype_testing_in_San_Francisco-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Uber_autonomous_vehicle_prototype_testing_in_San_Francisco.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>An Uber self-driving car struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first known pedestrian death involving a self-driving <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\">vehicle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Uber Technologies Inc. halted self-driving cars tests after one of its vehicle hit and killed a woman in Tempe and this is likely the first pedestrian fatality involving the technology.<\/p>\n<p>Elaine Herzberg, 49-year-old, was crossing the road outside of a crosswalk when a Uber vehicle in autonomous mode struck her, according to the Tempe Police Department, which responded to the scene at around 10 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tempe Police Department, there was a vehicle operator in the car but no passengers at the time of the accident. The woman was transferred to a local hospital where she died from her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from Uber said on Monday that Programs in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Phoenix and Toronto will be paused. A spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board said it is investigating the accident.<\/p>\n<p>Uber said in a statement that the company is fully cooperating with local authorities in their investigation of this incident.<\/p>\n<p>The incident may raise questions about the safety of the autonomous driving technology.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-03-19\/uber-autonomous-car-involved-in-fatal-crash-in-arizona\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Uber self-driving car struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona on Sunday night. This is the first known pedestrian death involving a self-driving vehicle. Uber Technologies Inc. halted self-driving cars tests after one of its vehicle hit and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/uber-ceo-halts-autonomous-car-testing-after-fatal-crash-in-arizona\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,32],"tags":[34,58,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1238"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1244,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238\/revisions\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}