Backup driver for self-driving Uber that killed Arizona pedestrian pleads guilty
by Associated Press from Technology | The Guardian on (#6DEVD)
Rafaela Vasquez pleads guilty to endangerment in the first deadly crash involving a fully autonomous car
The backup Uber driver for a self-driving vehicle that killed a pedestrian in suburban Phoenix in 2018 pleaded guilty on Friday to endangerment in the first deadly crash involving a fully autonomous car.
Arizona state judge David Garbarino, who accepted the plea agreement, sentenced Rafaela Vasquez to three years of supervised probation for the crash that killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg. Vasquez, 49, told police that Herzberg came out of nowhere" and that she didn't see Herzberg before hitting her on a darkened Tempe street on 18 March 2018.
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