This week America’s National Transportation Safety Board presented its findings on the fatal 2018 crash of a Uber test robocar with a pedestrian in Arizona. Forbes reports: The NTSB’s final determination of probable cause put primary blame on the safety driver’s inattention. Contributory causes were Uber’s lack of safety culture, poor monitoring of safety drivers, and lack of countermeasures for automation…
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Uber Test Vehicles Involved In 37 Crashes Before Fatal Self-Driving Incident
Uber’s autonomous test vehicles were involved in 37 crashes in the 18 months before a fatal March 2018 self-driving car accident, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Tuesday. Reuters reports: The board said between September 2016 and March 2018, there were 37 crashes of Uber vehicles in autonomous mode at the time, including 33 that involved another vehicle striking…
Calculation Errors and Inadequate Peer Review Led To Miami Bridge’s Collapse
America’s National Transportation Safety Board has now officially determined the probable causes of a Florida pedestrian bridge’s collapse in March of 2018: load and capacity calculation errors made by FIGG Bridge Engineers. Slashdot reader McGruber shares their report: Contributing to the collapse was Louis Berger’s inadequate peer review, which failed to detect FIGG’s calculation errors in its design of the main…
Plane Tests Must Use Average Pilots, NTSB Says After 737 MAX Crashes
Federal accident investigators called for broad changes in decades-old engineering principles and design assumptions related to pilot emergency responses, the first formal U.S. safety recommendations stemming from two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes. From a report: As part of lessons learned from the crashes that took 346 lives and grounded the global MAX fleet, the National Transportation Safety Board suggested that…