SAN FRANCISCO: The head of Mobileye said on March 26 its computer vision system would have detected the pedestrian who was killed in Arizona by a self-driving Uber vehicle, and called for a concerted move to validate the safety of autonomous vehicles. Police and safety regulators are investigating the March 18 fatality in which a woman crossing a wide roadway at night was struck and killed by the Uber self-driving test vehicle. Uber has not said whether the sensors in its self-driving vehicle detected Herzberg in the seconds before the accident. "Experience counts, particularly in safety-critical areas," Shashua wrote in a veiled reference to Uber, which only began to develop its self-driving program in 2015. "I firmly believe the time to have meaningful discussion on a safety validation framework for fully autonomous vehicles is now," Shashua wrote.

Source: The Star March 27, 2018 04:52 UTC