May 24, 2018

Uber Self-Driving Car That Struck, Killed Pedestrian Wasn’t Set to Stop in an Emergency

The Wall Street Journal

It is common for developers to disable built-in vehicle features such as automatic braking to avoid multiple systems issuing conflicting commands, said Raj Rajkumar, a Carnegie Mellon University professor who founded and later sold an autonomous-car software startup.

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