Backup Uber driver of self-driving car that killed pedestrian in 2018 pleads guilty to endangerment

PHOENIX — A backup driver of an autonomous car pleaded guilty to endangerment Friday in Maricopa County, Arizona, after a pedestrian was killed in 2018.

Read more trending newsRafaela Vasquez, 49, pleaded guilty Friday, The Associated Press reported. The crash occurred in March 2018 in Tempe between a self-driving car and a pedestrian named Elaine Herzberg, according to KSAZ. The crash became the first deadly one involving a self-driving vehicle, according to the AP. The deadly crash in 2018 was not the first crash involving a self-driving Uber vehicle.