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Uber Vehicle Saw But Ignored Woman It Struck, Report Says (engadget.com)

Posted by msmash on from the closer-look dept.

gollum123 writes: Uber has reportedly discovered that the fatal crash involving one of its prototype self-driving cars was probably caused by software faultily set up to ignore objects in the road, sources told The Information. Specifically, it was that the system was set up to ignore objects that it should have attended to; Herzberg seems to have been detected but considered a false positive.

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  1. Oops! We left it in murder mode. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So sorry for any inconvenience.

  2. Re:Oops! We left it in murder mode. by tattood · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think you mean kill mode

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