Last week there was a widely reported fatality involving an autonomous vehicle in Arizona. A self-driving Uber car struck and killed a 49-year old woman pedestrian, Elaine Herzberg, even though it had an emergency backup driver present behind the wheel. Yesterday Uber was ordered to suspend autonomous vehicle testing and take all its self-driving cars off Arizona roads. Uber had actually already suspended testing in all cities immediately after the tragic accident last week. Now Intel's Mobileye has published a blog with observations shared concerning the state of autonomous vehicle technology.
Prof. Amnon Shashua, SVP at Intel and CEO/CTO at Mobileye penned the opinion piece which suggests Uber was using inferior advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automatic emergency braking (AEB) technology. Shashua hints that an Intel Mobileye equipped car would have seen and taken action a full second ahead of the collision, given the footage provided (below).
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