{"id":11011,"date":"2023-08-01T12:37:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T10:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/01\/backup-driver-for-self-driving-uber-that-killed-arizona-pedestrian-pleads-guilty\/"},"modified":"2023-08-01T12:37:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T10:37:22","slug":"backup-driver-for-self-driving-uber-that-killed-arizona-pedestrian-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/01\/backup-driver-for-self-driving-uber-that-killed-arizona-pedestrian-pleads-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Backup driver for self-driving Uber that killed Arizona pedestrian pleads guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rafaela Vasquez pleads guilty to endangerment in the first deadly crash involving a fully autonomous car<\/p>\n<p>The backup Uber driver for a self-driving vehicle that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/sep\/16\/uber-self-driving-car-death-safety-driver-charged\">killed a pedestrian in suburban Phoenix<\/a> in 2018 pleaded guilty Friday to endangerment in the first deadly crash involving a fully autonomous car.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201ccame out of nowhere\u201d and that she didn\u2019t see Herzberg before hitting her on a darkened Tempe street on 18 March 2018.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/aug\/01\/uber-self-driving-arizona-deadly-crash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e3295b591fbb25b22f1910c52a101320c7b1e764\/0_151_2200_1320\/master\/2200.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d71f5533e5756763baf6a117ea4dfebc\" title=\"Backup driver for self-driving Uber that killed Arizona pedestrian pleads guilty\" \/>Rafaela Vasquez pleads guilty to endangerment in the first deadly crash involving a fully autonomous car<br \/>\nThe backup Uber driver for a self-driving vehicle that killed a pedestrian in suburban Phoenix in 2018 pleaded guilty Friday to endangerment in the first deadly crash involving a fully autonomous car.<br \/>\nArizona 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 \u201ccame out of nowhere\u201d and that she didn\u2019t see Herzberg before hitting her on a darkened Tempe street on 18 March 2018. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Friday to endangerment in the first deadly crash involving a fully autonomous car. Arizona state judge David Garbarino, who accepted &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/01\/backup-driver-for-self-driving-uber-that-killed-arizona-pedestrian-pleads-guilty\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Backup driver for self-driving Uber that killed Arizona pedestrian pleads guilty<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}