Of course - there's no mention of the actual reason for the crash
Quote:The accident occurred when the driver of a second vehicle "failed to yield" to the Uber vehicle while making a turn, said Josie Montenegro, a spokeswoman for the Tempe Police Department.
In any case the same thing happened after a Tesla on autopilot was involved in a fatal crash in the US - all the dinosaurs and luddites got on the internet to crow about it and predict that driverless was a dead end.
...until the DoT in the US analysed the data from Telsa's entire fleet, and concluded that
autopilot actually made cars 40% saferbgr.com/2017/01/19/tesla-autopilot-crash-safety-statistics-report-nhtsa/
And that's not even full autonomous driving. If you think the same governments that crow over a 5% reduction in road deaths will sit by and let an opportunity like that pass them by - you're delusional.
Not a great time to be an incumbent in the taxi industry - that's for sure