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A woman behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber that hit a pedestrian has since been in legal limbo.
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The operator faced negligent homicide charges after a 2018 crash that killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg.
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Rafaela Vazquez pleaded guilty Friday to endangering the case, avoiding jail time.
A guilty plea filed on Friday provided an answer to the once hypothetical moral question of who was responsible. When a self-driving car kills a pedestrian.
Rafaela Vasquez, who was behind the wheel of the self-driving Uber SUV that struck and killed a pedestrian in March 2018, has pleaded guilty to endangerment in connection with the case, avoiding jail.
She was sentenced to three years of probation, as per the plea agreement released By the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office
Was Vasquez charged with negligent homicide After the investigators said it was Watching a video clip on her phone at the time of the accident And it didn’t brake in time, Insider previously reported.
The Uber system detected the victim 5.6 seconds before the crash, New York times She stated but failed to specify that she was a cyclist or that she was heading into the path of the vehicle.
The victim, 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg, was the first known pedestrian death related to a fully autonomous vehicle accident. She was pushing her bike across a lane before the crash occurred.
Two years ago, Joshua Brown of Canton, Ohio, was driving a semi-autonomous Tesla car when he was killed in a crash in what was the first fatality attributed to self-driving technology. New York times mentioned.
Since then, according to the Department of Transportation statistics As of January, automakers reported a total of 419 car accidents involving semi- or fully self-driving vehicles, including 18 fatalities.
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