{"id":22413,"date":"2018-03-20T03:54:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T01:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.radioislam.org.za\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/20\/woman-in-arizona-killed-by-uber-driverless-car\/"},"modified":"2018-03-20T03:54:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T01:54:46","slug":"woman-in-arizona-killed-by-uber-driverless-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/woman-in-arizona-killed-by-uber-driverless-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman in Arizona Killed by Uber Driverless Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News &#8211; 20-03-2018<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A woman has died of her injuries after being struck by a Uber self-driving vehicle in Arizona prompting the ride-hailing company to suspend it\u2019s autonomous-vehicle programme across the US and Canada.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reuters reports that Monday&#8217;s accident in Tempe marked the first fatality from a self-driving vehicle, which are still being tested around the globe, and could derail efforts to fast-track the introduction of the new technology in the US.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tempe police say at the time of the accident, the car was in autonomous mode with a vehicle operator behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The vehicle was travelling northbound &#8230; when a female walking outside of the crosswalk crossed the road from west to east when she was struck by the Uber vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A person familair with the accident says the vehicle involved in the accident was a Volvo. Local television footage of the scene showed a crumpled bike and a Volvo XC90 SUV with a smashed-in front.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A spokesman for Uber Technologies says the company was suspending its North American tests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a tweet, Uber expressed its condolences and said the company was fully cooperating with authorities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaizelPatel143\" rel=\"alternate\">Twitter: @FaizelPatel143<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News &#8211; 20-03-2018 A woman has died of her injuries after being struck by a Uber self-driving vehicle in Arizona prompting the ride-hailing company to suspend it\u2019s autonomous-vehicle programme across the US and Canada. Reuters reports that Monday&#8217;s accident in Tempe marked the first fatality from a self-driving vehicle, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-5Pv","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 11:01:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}