| A tragic turn of events puts Uber's self-driving program in an unfortunate spotlight, Facebook's fallout from its privacy debacle continues and Bumble has an unconventional response to Tinder-based lawsuit. All that and more in The Daily Crunch for March 20, 2018. 1. Uber autonomous test car kills pedestrian in accident By far the biggest news in tech yesterday was that one of Uber's autonomous test SUVs hit and killed a pedestrian while in self-driving mode. A subsequent preliminary police reports suggests it was an accident that likely wasn't the fault of the Uber vehicle or safety driver, but it's still going to be a precedent-setting event in the development of AVs. It's a tragic outcome, but also likely an inevitable one as development of fully autonomous vehicles continues, sadly. This will definitely lead to more scrutiny on ongoing self-driving development from both regulators and the public, at the very least. 
2. Facebook's CSO likely leaving as a result of its disinformation problem Facebook increasingly looks like a butter churn of disastrous unintended consequences, and the latest fallout might be Alex Stamos, the widely respected and high-profile current Chief Security Officer for the social network. 3. Meanwhile, there's loads more news around Facebook and Cambridge Analytica Including an FTC probe and a summons for Mark Zuckerberg to appear before the UK House of Commons to basically explain wtf is going on. 4. Bumble responds to Match Group lawsuit with full-page NYT ad The angle here is clearly on enlisting public opinion and making Match seem like bullies, regarding their lawsuit against Bumble for making use of the swipe to select mechanic pioneered by Match's Tinder. Laudable words from Bumble's marketing department, but no example of a legal argument. Still, this whole thing is dumb and Tinder should probably just drop it. 5. DocuSign has confidentially filed for IPO You've probably used DocuSign at some point, since it's long led the market in terms of e-signing documents. It's actually 15 years old, but it's only now preparing to go public, after having raised $500 million from venture sources since its inception. 6. Waze Carpool spreads to Washington Waze is slowly growing its Carpool product, which means it must be working decently well? The company debuted its version of ride sharing in Israel in 2015. 7. YC Demo Day 26 (part one) launches 64 startups That's just... so many companies. | 
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