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The full article from the NYT[0] which is the source for the information presented in the Verge post includes a quote indicating that Uber blames the operator for not manually stopping the vehicle. Their story is essentially that the car isn't ready to handle this scenario on its own and the operator should have known to intervene.

[0] https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/technology/anthony-lev...

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Which could (and will) be said for any autonomous accident in the past and future.

The NTSB takes a similar view: autopilot failures that result in aircraft crashes are still human error, since the human should have corrected. Still not very encouraging, since the driver in this case would have had seconds at most to identify and fix the error with a panic stop.

I don't think that's really a fair comparison if we're taking Uber at their word since the car is still a dev unit.

It seems like a known problem, cars would not stop at any red light period and the driver just forgot to stop because he wasn't paying attention.

They also track disengages as a metric for progress right? So it could be that these drivers will if at all possible avoid taking over.

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