This story is from November 11, 2019
National Transportation Safety Board
on Tuesday released more than 400 pages of reports and supporting documents on the March 2018 crash that killed 49-yearold Elaine Herzberg as she walked her bicycle across a road at night in Arizona. The documents paint a picture of safety and design lapses with tragic consequences but didn’t assign a cause for the crash. NTSB is scheduled to do that at a November 19 meeting. “We value the thoroughness of the NTSB’s investigation into the crash,” the firm said. Uber said it made critical improvements to prioritise safety.jaywalking
pedestrians”.The vehicle’s radar sensors first observed Herzberg about 5.6 seconds prior to impact before she entered the vehicle’s lane of travel, and initially classified her as a vehicle. But the system changed its classification of her as different objects several times and failed to predict that her path would cross the lane of test SUV, according to NTSB.