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Human Interest
WATCH: Footage of self-driving Uber crash released─── 21:30 Thu, 22 Mar 2018
Police have released footage of the fatal car accident involving a pedestrian and a self-driving vehicle.
The footage was captured by the vehicle’s dash cam.
On Sunday evening, a woman was struck while walking her bicycle outside the crosswalk on a four-lane road in Tempe, a suburb of Phoenix.
The woman, Elaine Herzberg, 49, died later in hospital from her injuries.
According to police, she was struck by a Volvo XC90 SUV, used by Uber, travelling at around 65km per hour. It was in autonomous mode with an operator behind the wheel.
The video shows that the lights of the SUV did not illuminate Herzberg until just before impact, raising questions about whether the vehicle could have stopped in time.
The video also shows the human operator looking down seconds before the crash.
The driver looks startled during the last moments of the clip.
