[anon1385]

>You misunderstood. The Uber software had sole control of the brakes (plus the human of course). The Volvo factory system was disabled so that it didn’t have negative interaction with the Uber system.

That's not how I read it, or how any of the journalists who are reporting the story are reading it. Uber disabled the self driving software's ability to do an emergency stop when it detected it was going to crash. The Volvo system is separate and also was disabled when the car was in self driving mode.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-24/uber-self...

>Sensors on an Uber SUV being tested in Tempe detected the woman, who was crossing a street at night outside a crosswalk, eventually concluding “an emergency braking maneuver was needed to mitigate a collision,” the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report released Thursday.

>But the system couldn’t activate the brakes, the NTSB said.

That's the only reading that makes sense to me, otherwise why did the car fail to attempt to stop when it detected the pedestrian and knew it was going to hit them?