警方的报告可以解开超级崩溃之谜

麦迪逊，威斯康星州 — — EE 时代已获得在坦帕 （亚利桑那州） 警察局 3 月 24 日涉及超级车辆交通事故的报告。

报告全文讲述从失事的早些时候，粗略的帐户不同。它还揭示了可能会促使更多的疑问妖孽的行动的细节 — — 或不采取行动 — — 路口事故发生。

EE 时代得到了登小组，协助我们破译的警察报告的高级分析师麦克德姆勒的帮助。

深入细节之前，这里是回顾一下我们之前的报道︰

直到警察信息成为公共的普遍的新闻叙事，包括这份出版物，是，飞机坠毁导致当第二辆车的司机”未能产生”超级车左转弯时。

观察者很快得出结论，这是鲁莽的”人类”驱动引起的事故。尤伯杯 — — 这是在自动驾驶模式 — — 并没有错。

交叉口南麦克林托克博士和东唐 · 卡洛斯大道超级事故发生在 2017 年 3 月 24 日

When we put together statements by drivers and an eyewitness included in the police report, we begin to see a different picture.

First, the driver who hit Uber’s Volvo was in the intersection waiting to turn left and was therefore moving slowly. She wasn’t exactly making a sudden, reckless move.

Second, Uber’s Volvo, in self-driving mode, was moving at 38 mph in a 40 mph zone and failed to detect the left-turning vehicle. Further, although the Uber’s driver remembers the traffic light changing to yellow when his car entered the intersection, the Uber Volvo didn’t react, neither hurrying nor hesitating.

Fortunately, nobody got hurt. After a dormant weekend, Uber announced that the company has resumed its driverless pilot project, picking up passengers both in Tempe and Pittsburgh.

Uber, originally quick to announce its decision to “ground” its driverless vehicles after the crash, has since fallen silent. The company has ceased all comment about the accident. An Uber spokesperson told us via email, “What I’ve shared to date is all we are sharing on our findings.” She referred to Tempe Police Department for any more information on the incident.

So, to understand what really happened, and what — if anything — we can learn from this crash, we turned to the Police Report, provided to us by Detective Lily Duran, Media Relations Unit, at Tempe Police Department.