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Software behind self-driving Uber crash didn't recognize jaywalkers

An image from dashcam footage released by the Tempe Police Department shows the moment before the collision of an Uber self-driving vehicle and a pedestrian on March 18, 2018.

An Uber self-driving car that struck and killed a woman last year in Arizona failed to recognize her as a pedestrian because she was jaywalking, US transport regulators said Tuesday.

The woman had been crossing the street "at a location without a crosswalk; the system design did not include a consideration for jaywalking pedestrians," the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said in a statement.

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