The Uber safety driver at the wheel during the first known fatal self-driving car crash involving a pedestrian has pleaded guilty to and been sentenced for an endangerment charge. Rafaela Vasquez will serve three years of probation for her role in the 2018 Tempe, Arizona collision that killed Elaine Herzberg while she was jaywalking at night. The sentence honors the prosecutors' demands and is stiffer than the six months the defense team requested. The prosecution maintained that Vasquez was ultimately responsible. While an autonomous car was involved, Vasquez was supposed to concentrate on the road and take over if necessary.

UPDATED Arizona police report that the safety driver involved in the March's fatal Uber crash was streaming a television show on Hulu before the autonomous test car struck and killed a homeless woman, 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg. On the face of it, the report appears to contradict the driver's claim that she was monitoring the Uber interface on the modified Volvo's dashboard immediately before the accident, which took place at night on 18 March, in Tempe. According to the local Police Department, the safety driver's account was playing'The Voice' for about 42 minutes, ending at 9.59pm, the approximate time of the crash. Video footage from inside the car showed her looking down for seven of the 22 minutes before the collision. The police say that the accident would have been "entirely avoidable" had the driver, 44-year-old Rafaela Vasquez, been watching the road.