Toyota suspends all self-driving vehicles at PG after collision with athlete

Weird way to phrase the headline. Someone manually controlling the vehicle with a joystick hit the person.

The headline implies the self-driving vehicle was driving itself. This was not the case.

> According to Toyota, the self-driving vehicle had stopped at a T-junction and was about to make a turn under manual control of the operator using a joystick. The vehicle then collided with the athlete going at a speed of around 1 or 2 km/hr.

> Right now, this doesn’t appear to be entirely the automaker’s fault, nor the fault of its Level 4 self-driving technology… according to Toyota. While the investigation is still underway, it appears that human error may have caused the actual collision with the athlete, as the operator apparently took over control to make the turn.

Is this EV too quiet? Do the blind rely on engine noise from vehicles that are coming to a stop or about to move again?