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Uber settles with family of victim in fatal self-driving vehicle accident

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20 pointsAnatMl211 comments

The stallement of the further development of autonomous cars seems rather a marketing thing on Toyota and Uber side than actual analysis of what happens. Still think that self-driving cars are already much safer than a human behind the wheel. As Musk said, it is not difficult to get to 99.9%, the important things is to get to 99.99999% of accuracy and reliability

How do you know this? From the video I saw, the advanced sensors didn't pick up the pedestrian at all. I would have expected some braking forcing the human driver to move forward abruptly. It would have been interesting to see the tail end of the video before impact to see if the car made any evasive moves at all. It wasn't evident to me the AI was 99.9% better in that situation.

It should be said that a settlement is in no way an acknowledgement of culpability.

It's just a hell of a lot easier to not even get into a case at all, for everyone.

Wow, that was fast.

There are some very uneasy questions regarding this case. I'm not surprised they do what they can to stop prodding into it.

"Victim's family agrees to gag order in fatal self-driving vehicle accident" would have been a better title.

The terms of the settlement were not given. The law firm representing Herzberg’s daughter and husband, whose names were not disclosed, said they would have no further comment on the matter as they considered it resolved.

I wish they were forced to release amounts in settlements. I wanna know numbers!

I was surprised they didn't share more details. The settlement has been reached, why wouldn't they disclose the numbers?

To avoid establishing a baseline for future incidents. And also to avoid being judged on the amount at which they settled.

That makes sense, thanks for your answer!

most settlements get covered by NDA's to protect the defendant.

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