{"id":352924,"date":"2018-03-19T19:15:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T18:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uber-suspends-driverless-car-program-after-pedestrian-is-struck-and-killed\/"},"modified":"2018-03-19T19:15:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T18:15:41","slug":"uber-suspends-driverless-car-program-after-pedestrian-is-struck-and-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uber-suspends-driverless-car-program-after-pedestrian-is-struck-and-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber Suspends Driverless Car Program After Pedestrian Is Struck and Killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Incident in Tempe, Ariz., is believed to be the first such fatality from a driverless vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>A self-driving car from Uber Technologies Inc. struck a woman who died Monday in Tempe, Ariz., local police say, in what is believed to be the first known fatality of a pedestrian from a driverless vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Following the accident overnight, Uber is temporarily pulling its self-driving cars off the roads in Tempe, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, and Toronto, where it is testing them, a spokeswoman said. She said Uber is investigating the incident and cooperating with authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The Uber vehicle, which included a human driver to assist, struck a woman who later died from her injuries, according to Tempe police. More details are expected after an investigation is concluded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome incredibly sad news out of Arizona,\u201d wrote Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi on Twitter Monday. \u201cWe\u2019re thinking of the victim\u2019s family as we work with local law enforcement to understand what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>Comments<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/uber-suspends-driverless-car-program-after-pedestrian-is-struck-and-killed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incident in Tempe, Ariz., is believed to be the first such fatality from a driverless vehicle. A self-driving car from Uber Technologies Inc. struck a woman who died Monday in Tempe, Ariz., local police say, in what is believed to be the first known fatality of a pedestrian from a driverless vehicle. Following the accident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-352924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}