Who Killed Elaine Herzberg?

Who is ultimately to blame in the first self-driving car fatality — the technology, the victim, the safety driver, Uber, or the American city itself?

Jack Stilgoe
OneZero
Published in
8 min readDec 12, 2019

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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) just released the final report of a crash in which a woman was killed after being hit by a self-driving car operated by

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Jack Stilgoe
OneZero
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Jack Stilgoe is a professor in Science and Technology Studies at University College London. @jackstilgoe