Alan Ohnsman/ForbesJust what went wrong with a self-driving Uber car that failed to avoid fatally hitting a pedestrian crossing a dark Tempe, Arizona, street isn’t yet known. But the head of Waymo is confident of this: His autonomous vehicles would have stopped in time. “We're very confident that our car could have handled that situation,”“We know that for a lot of different reasons. And Uber’s human drivers had to intervene far more frequently than the drivers of competing autonomous car projects,” the Times said. The settlement included Waymo receiving Uber equity valued at about 245 million.

Source: Forbes March 25, 2018 00:25 UTC