The backup Uber driver involved in the first self-driving vehicle fatality has been charged with negligent homicide for being distracted in the moments before fatally striking a woman in suburban Phoenix. Prosecutors declined in March 2019 to file criminal charges against Uber, as a corporation, in Herzberg's death. Instead of the system, Uber relied on the human backup driver to intervene. The Uber system detected Herzberg 5.6 seconds before the crash. Doug Ducey prohibited Uber from continuing its tests of self-driving cars after Herzberg was run over.

Source: CBC News September 16, 2020 00:22 UTC