The self-driving technology deployed in an Uber which struck and killed a woman crossing the street in Arizona recently, noted a pedestrian was on the road, but didn't stop, a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board says. "The self-driving system software classified the pedestrian as an unknown object, as a vehicle, and then as a bicycle with varying expectations of future travel path," the NTSB said. This image from the NTSB report shows that the car identified the object as a bicycle at least 1.3 seconds before impact. "The vehicle operator is relied on to intervene and take action," the NTSB report said, but "the system is not designed to alert the operator." "All aspects of the self-driving system were operating normally at the time of the crash, and there were no faults or diagnostic messages," the NTSB said.

Source: CBC News May 24, 2018 16:30 UTC