Death of Elaine Herzberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Death of Elaine Herzberg

first pedestrian fatality caused by self-driving car

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1968

Place of Birth: Mesa, Arizona, United States

Date of Death: 18-Mar-2018

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

The death of Elaine Herzberg (August 2, 1968 – March 18, 2018) was the first recorded case of a pedestrian fatality involving a self-driving (autonomous) 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.Following the fatal incident, Uber suspended testing of self-driving vehicles in Arizona, where such testing had been sanctioned since August 2016.
Uber chose not to renew its permit for testing self-driving vehicles in California when it expired at the end of March 2018.Herzberg was specifically the first pedestrian death involving a self-driving car; a previous fatality, in which the driver of a semi-autonomous car was killed, had occurred almost two years prior.
A Washington Post reporter 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.