First pedestrian fatality caused by self-driving car
Elaine Herzberg
Born
Elaine Marie Wood
(1968-08-02)August 2, 1968
Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.[1]
Died
March 18, 2018(2018-03-18) (aged 49)
Tempe, Arizona, U.S.
Burial place
Phoenix, Arizona[1]
Nationality
American
Education
Apache Junction High School, Apache Junction, Arizona[1]
Known for
First pedestrian to be killed by a self-driving car
Spouse(s)
Mike Herzberg (until his death); Rolf Erich Ziemann (until Elaine's death)[1]
The death of Elaine Herzberg (August 2, 1968 – March 18, 2018) was the first recorded case of a pedestrian fatality involving a self-driving car, after a collision that occurred late in the evening of March 18, 2018. Herzberg was pushing a bicycle across a four-lane road in Tempe, Arizona, United States, when she was struck by an Uber test vehicle, which was operating in self-drive mode with a human safety backup driver sitting in the driving seat. Herzberg was taken to the local hospital where she died of her injuries.[2][3][4]
Following the fatal incident, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a series of recommendations and sharply criticized Uber. The company suspended testing of self-driving vehicles in Arizona,[5] where such testing had been sanctioned since August 2016.[6] Uber chose not to renew its permit for testing self-driving vehicles in California when it expired at the end of March 2018.[7] Uber resumed testing in December 2018.[8]
On March 2019, Arizona prosecutors ruled that Uber was not criminally responsible for the crash.[9] The back-up driver of the vehicle was charged with negligent homicide.[10]
While Herzberg was the first pedestrian killed by a self-driving car, a driver, Joshua Brown, had been killed by a semi-autonomous car almost two years earlier. A reporter for The Washington Post compared Herzberg's fate with that of Bridget Driscoll who, in the United Kingdom in 1896, was the first pedestrian to be killed by an automobile.
The Arizona incident has magnified the importance of collision avoidance systems for self-driving vehicles.[11]
^ abcd"In Memoriam: Elaine Marie Herzberg". www.sonoranskiesmortuaryaz.com. Archived from the original on August 23, 2019. Retrieved June 4, 2018.
^Will Pavia (March 21, 2018). "Driverless Uber car 'not to blame' for woman's death". The Times. Archived from the original on August 23, 2019. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
^Wakabayashi, Daisuke (March 19, 2018). "Self-Driving Uber Car Kills Pedestrian in Arizona, Where Robots Roam". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 21, 2020. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
^"Video shows moment of fatal Uber crash". BBC News. March 22, 2018. Archived from the original on November 30, 2018. Retrieved July 21, 2018.
^Cite error: The named reference SFG-180321 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Cite error: The named reference Guardian-180328 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Carolyn Said (March 27, 2018). "Uber puts the brakes on testing robot cars in California after Arizona fatality". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on August 21, 2019. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
^Hawkins, Andrew J. (December 20, 2018). "Uber's self-driving cars return to public roads for the first time since fatal crash". The Verge. Retrieved December 15, 2022.
^"USA: Uber critiqué pour un accident fatal en 2018". Reuters. November 20, 2019. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
^"Uber's self-driving operator charged over fatal crash". BBC News. September 16, 2020. Retrieved April 1, 2022.
^Umar Zakir Abdul, Hamid; et al. (2018). "A review on threat assessment, path planning and path tracking strategies for collision avoidance systems of autonomous vehicles". International Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems. 14 (2). Archived from the original on March 31, 2021. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
and 20 Related for: Death of Elaine Herzberg information
The deathofElaineHerzberg (August 2, 1968 – March 18, 2018) was the first recorded case of a pedestrian fatality involving a self-driving car, after...
HBO when he compared the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi to the deathofElaineHerzberg by an Uber self-driving car in 2018. He called them both "mistakes"...
March 2018, Uber paused self-driving vehicle testing after the deathofElaineHerzberg in Tempe, Arizona, a pedestrian struck by an Uber vehicle while...
the deathsof animals, for whom there are several sources mentioning the deaths as unusual. Autoerotic fatality Darwin Awards Death by coconut Death from...
This is a list of episodes of the British anthology drama series Tales of the Unexpected. Nine episodes. First broadcast: Saturdays on ITV – 24 March to...
Arcady: Adventures in Poetry, Max John Herzberg, ed. (New York: American Book Company, 1933), p. 311. The Appreciation of Poetry, Ernest George Moll, ed. (New...
The spectroscopy of molecular oxygen is associated with the atmospheric processes of aurora and airglow. The absorption in the Herzberg continuum and Schumann–Runge...
thirteenth series of the British television drama The Bill was broadcast from 2 January to 30 December 1997. The series consisted of 152 episodes, including...
This is an alphabetical list of documentary films with Wikipedia articles. The earliest documentary listed is Fred Ott's Sneeze (1894), which is also the...
in the report of National Transportation Safety Board about the fatal accident between an UBER test vehicle and pedestrian ElaineHerzberg. Automation bias...
and a co-winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally) for development of the radioimmunoassay...
Gerhard Herzberg, 94, German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist. William McGonagle, 73, American naval officer and recipient of the Medal of Honor...
the hand of computers. This led to a dilemma over who was at fault for the accident. In another incident on March 18, 2018, ElaineHerzberg was struck...
of the high school was completed in 1932 and classes began in September 1933. Max J. Herzberg was the first principal and remained as the leader of the...
interpretable learning, reproducibility, and the neuroscience of synesthesia I. Elaine Allen, American survey statistician and biostatistician Naomi Altman...
University of Iowa Press. ISBN 9781587292200. Herzberg, Ruth, and Pearson, John A. (2001). The Guide to Iowa's State Preserves. Iowa City IA: University of Iowa...
Bolton Basten, CMG, Vice-Chancellor, University of Adelaide. Otto Herzberg Frankel, Chief of the Division of Plant Industry, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial...
Global Information