Nonetheless, according to an investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (and confirmed by Uber itself), Uber's system was not designed to consider the possibility that pedestrians might jaywalk, i.e., walk across roads outside designated crossings, or push bicycles across the road while on foot. These oversights were why the car never identified Elaine Herzberg as a human pedestrian walking a bicycle across the road and, instead, got hung up trying to decide what kind of object was ahead of it instead of promptly slowing down once an object was detected.