Autonomous car kills pedestrian: not the entire story

Urban design and vehicle type are as culpable as Uber

As inevitable as the headline is and as tragic as the death of 49-year old Elaine Herzberg is, this isn’t as simple a story as it initially sounds. It’s as much an indictment of car-centric urban planning as autonomous vehicles and while deeply significant socially, emotionally and to her family and friends, it’s statistically inevitable, especially where it happened.