Autonomous Vehicle News
The Uber driver behind the wheel during the first reported fatal collision involving a fully autonomous vehicle pleaded guilty to endangerment on Friday, and was sentenced to three years of supervised probation. Driver Rafaela Vasquez, 49, was streaming a show on her phone and not watching the road at the moment of the fatal accident, authorities said. An Ohio driver was killed after crashing into a semi-truck while his Tesla was operating in autopilot in 2016. In 2019, a Tesla Model A driver was killed when his vehicle, operating in autopilot, crashed into a tractor-trailer in Florida. Since Herzberg's death, Uber has pulled its self-driving cars out of Arizona, and then-Gov.