Police chief said Uber victim came from the shadowsdont believe it

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Police chief said Uber victim “came from the shadows”—don’t believe it

YouTube videos give a different impression of the site of a deadly Uber crash.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/03/police-chief-said-uber-victim-came-from-the-shadows-dont-believe-it/

Timothy B. Lee - 3/23/2018, 9:06 AM

On Sunday night, an Uber self-driving car killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona. A key argument in Uber's defense has been that the road was so dark that even an attentive driver would not have spotted Herzberg in the seconds before the crash.

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When police released footage from the Uber vehicle's onboard camera on Wednesday, it seemed to somewhat support this view. In the video, Herzberg's feet become visible only about 1.4 seconds before the final frame of the video. Prior to that point, she appears shrouded in shadow.

But then people in the Tempe area started making their own videos—videos that give a dramatically different impression of that section of roadway.

In this nighttime video, posted to YouTube by Brian Kaufman on Wednesday, the scene of the crash can be seen around 0:33. Features at the sides of the road—including curbs, signs, and bushes—are clearly visible. No pedestrians walk into the road during the video, but it seems clear that Herzberg would have been visible much earlier if the Uber video had been taken with this camera.

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Anyone who has done a considerable amount of night driving realized that the video did not tell the correct story of what either humans or the car could see.