Family of woman killed in Tempe self-driving car accident settles with Uber
Mar 29, 2018, 10:45 AM | Updated: 9:49 pm
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PHOENIX — The family of a woman struck and killed by a self-driving automobile in Tempe has reached a settlement with Uber, according to a news report.
International news agency Reuters wrote Wednesday night that the lawyer for Elaine Herzberg’s husband and daughter said, “the matter has been resolved.”
No terms were disclosed.
The 49-year-old Herzberg was walking her bicycle across Mill Avenue and Curry Road late March 18 when an autonomous Volvo operated by an Uber employee hit her.
The car was going about 40 mph.
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Although someone who appeared to be distracted in a video of the crash was seated behind the wheel, investigators for Tempe Police said the accident may have been unavoidable.
But a spokesman for the company that supplied radar and cameras for the cars said its crash-avoidance systems had “nothing to do” with the tragedy and that Uber had disabled the SUV’s standard safety tech.
Zach Peterson with Aptiv said this week, “We don’t want people to be confused or think it was failure of the technology that we supply for Volvo because that’s not the case.”
The rideshare suspended tests of the self-driving cars by the next day and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey said Monday the state would follow suit.
The National Transportation Safety Board hasn’t completed its report yet.
