Uber Self-driving Car Kills Arizona Woman!

News has broken that Uber is suspending all autonomous vehicle testing across the United States after one of its self-driving vehicles struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona.

Evgeny Chereshnev, CEO at Biolink Tech, said: "At the moment, the autonomous vehicles we have already – such as airport trains and the Docklands Light Railway in the UK – thankfully work hazard free because the journeys are simple and predictable.

"Statistically, there is very little risk of anything going wrong, because they’re programmed to only go from A to B. Even with other forms of partly automated transport, such as planes and ships, there is still always a human there to monitor them.

"However, on roads, autonomous cars have the potential to be compromised almost 100 percent of the time. There are many factors that bring significant risk to the use of autonomous cars, all of which are from external sources such as other human drivers, pedestrians, cyclists and even sudden extreme weather changes. Unless all cars on the road are autonomous, sadly there is the potential for more people to be injured or worse.

"That being said, I think it’s important not to kill the initiative of autonomous cars. Any risk of road accident by self-driving cars will be significantly less than the current number of road accidents – which is reported to be a staggering 1.25 million per year.

"Unfortunately, unless we have fully controlled environments on the roads, accidents can and will continue to happen."