{"id":33277,"date":"2018-03-21T01:25:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T00:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/03\/21\/uber-should-be-shut-down-friends-of-self-driving-car-crash-victim-seek-justice\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T01:25:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T00:25:19","slug":"uber-should-be-shut-down-friends-of-self-driving-car-crash-victim-seek-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=33277","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Uber should be shut down&#039;: friends of self-driving car crash victim seek justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Loved ones are in shock over the death of Elaine Herzberg in Arizona, but questions remain as to whether Uber will be held accountableSelf-driving Uber kills woman in first fatal pedestrian crashFriends of the first known pedestrian to be killed by a self-driving car have called for Uber to be held accountable as questions mount about how the autonomous technology failed to stop the vehicle from hitting a human in its path.Two days after an Uber SUV fatally struck the 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona, while traveling in autonomous mode, friends of the victim have argued that the ride-share company should face consequences and criticized government officials for encouraging car companies to test the vehicles on the state\u2019s public roads. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2018\/mar\/20\/uber-self-driving-car-crash-death-arizona-elaine-herzberg\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Uber should be shut down&#039;: friends of self-driving car crash victim seek justice<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loved ones are in shock over the death of Elaine Herzberg in Arizona, but questions remain as to whether Uber will be held accountableSelf-driving Uber kills woman in first fatal pedestrian crashFriends of the first known pedestrian to be killed by a self-driving car have called for Uber to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}