The Courts Can Handle the Deadly Uber Self-Driving Car Crash
This article is adapted from a forthcoming peer-reviewed essay in Volume 61 of the Communications of the ACM. The pedestrian who was struck and killed by a sel…
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The role of humans in self-driving cars is even more complicated after Uber's fatal crash
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Experts say self-driving Uber should've spotted pedestrian in deadly crash
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Uber crash shows 'catastrophic failure' of self-driving technology, experts say
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With no clear liability against Facebook, professor calls for stronger data privacy laws
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Police release video of Uber fatal collision
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