The backup Uber driver for a self-driving vehicle that killed a pedestrian in suburban Phoenix in 2018 has pleaded guilty to endangerment in the first fatal collision involving a fully autonomous car. Rafaela Vasquez was sentenced to probation.
Vasquez’s attorneys said she was was looking at a messaging program used by Uber employees on a work cellphone that was on her right knee. They said the TV show was playing on her personal cellphone, which was on the passenger seat.
“The defendant had one job and one job only,” prosecutor Tiffany Brady told the judge. “And that was to keep her eyes in the road.” Herzberg’s death was the first involving an autonomous test vehicle but not the first in a car with some self-driving features. The driver of a Tesla Model S was killed in 2016 when his car, operating on its Autopilot system, crashed into a semitrailer in Florida.
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