Tempe police released a video recording of the moments before an Uber autonomous vehicle plowed into a woman who was walking with her bicycle on a high-speed road in the Phoenix suburb. The video shows that she was shrouded in darkness until just before the hit, so presumably a human driver could just as easily have run her over. But Uber’s car sensors—namely, a radar as well as a laser-emitting...
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