Fatal crash with self-driving car was a first — like Bridget Driscoll’s was 121 years ago with one of the first cars

More than 121 years ago, a British woman was strolling the grounds of London’s Crystal Palace when she was hit by an almost experimental type of vehicle called a horseless carriage.

And so it happened that Bridget Driscoll became the first of many millions of pedestrians to be killed by automobiles.

An Arizona woman, identified as Elaine Herzberg, has achieved a similarly sorrowful and unwanted distinction, becoming the first pedestrian known to have been killed by an autonomous car. She, too, is unlikely to be the last.  read more »