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Rumors can have many emotions attached to them hurting many in the path of the rumor because rumors get around so fast now. In Tempe, Arizona and across the country numerous rumors of the deadly crash that involve the self-driving Uber vehicle raises. Why didn't the car brake? Why did the back up driver not brake the car? Why did the lady step out knowing a car was coming? So many questions for so many rumors to circulate. Smith states "This is strongly suggestive of multiple failures of Uber and its system, and its safety driver." (Snopes 2018) In Tempe, Arizona a deadly collision of a women that was crossing the road in a dark area was struck by a self-driving Uber with a human backup driver behind the wheel. Experts say that the self-driving Uber vehicle radar sensors should have spotted a pedestrian and computers should have braked the car to avoid the crash. The crash happened Sunday, when the car struck Elainen Herzberg. The Uber's human backup driver appear to