Uber driver Rafaela Vasquez, 49, pleaded guilty to endangerment on Friday after her self-driving vehicle killed a pedestrian while her eyes were off the road back in 2018.
Rafaela Vasquez speaks with her attorney during a court hearing prior to accepting a plea agreement of three years of supervised probation for the Uber autonomous vehicle crash that killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg, at Maricopa County Superior Court, Friday, July 28, 2023, in Phoenix.
But prosecutors declined to file criminal charges against Uber in Herzberg's death after the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that Vasquez's inattention was the primary cause of the accident. Vasquez had spent more than four years in prison for two felony convictions - attempted armed robbery and making false statements while obtaining unemployment benefits - before she was hired by Uber, according to court records. Rafaela Vasquez is pictured on dashcam footage at the moment of the crash that killed Elaine Herzberg.
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