# Professor Arun Sundararajan comments on the state of autonomous vehicles in response to a recent pedestrian death in Arizona

1 Faculty News March 19, 2018 ![Bloomberg logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloomberg192x144.jpg?itok=yV529lwz)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-19/uber-autonomous-car-involved-in-fatal-crash-in-arizona) -- "'We’re within the phase of autonomous vehicles where we’re still learning how good they are. Whenever you release a new technology there’s a whole bunch of unanticipated situations,' said [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a professor at New York University’s business school. 'Despite the fact that humans are also prone to error, we have as a society many decades of understanding of those errors.'"

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