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On the night of 18 March 2018 a test vehicle run by Uber's Advanced Technologies Group, driving itself with a safety operator behind the wheel, struck and killed Elaine Herzberg as she crossed a road in Tempe, Arizona. The National Transportation Safety Board found that the automated driving system detected her 5.6 seconds before impact but never classified her as a pedestrian or predicted her path; its design did not consider pedestrians crossing outside a crosswalk. The backstop was the operator, and she was not watching. The Board's probable cause was her failure to monitor the road because she was visually distracted throughout the trip by her personal phone. It named three contributing failures inside the company: inadequate safety risk assessment procedures, ineffective oversight of vehicle operators, and no adequate mechanism for addressing operators' automation complacency.