Do you have other information about the self driving fatality? While its a tall order, the self driving cars should perform better than humans when it comes to reaction times in incidents like this.
The car didn't do anything wrong, emergency braking was disabled and relied on human intervention.
Now why it was disabled is another question. Most likely because their system isn't anywhere near ready.
The only value I see from the whole of Uber is know how and practical examples of how not do solve this. The fatality didn't change anything, it is (and was) painfully apparent that it was only a matter of time.
The Volvo collision system had been disabled, the Uber system didn't detect the woman crossing the road, and the driver was watching Hulu or similar on her phone. Uber had also gone from teams of two doing the autonomous testing to teams of one.
Oh yeah, and Uber released a super contrasty picture to justify their car's behavior. Less biased sources showed that there was plenty of visibility on that stretch of road.
If you're looking for sources, Ars covered everything in pretty good detail.
This isnt true, Uber system detected obstacle, categorized it as bicycle and send emergency braking signal .. which went straight to /dev/null and logs.
