For robot-driving, some want to reprogram pedestrians crossing streets

An Uber self-driving car killed a woman in Arizona who was walking a bicycle across the street at night

You’re crossing the street wrong.
 

That is essentially the argument some self-driving car boosters have fallen back on in the months after the first pedestrian death attributed to an autonomous vehicle and amid growing concerns that artificial intelligence capable of real-world driving is further away than many predicted just a few years ago.
 

In a line reminiscent of Steve Jobs’s famous defence of the iPhone 4’s flawed antennae—“Don't hold it like that” — these technologists say the problem isn’t that self-driving cars don’t work, it’s that people act unpredictably.
 

“What we tell people is, ‘Please be lawful and please be