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Backup driver in fatal Arizona Uber autonomous crash charged

by Associated Press
| September 15, 2020 3:27 PM

PHOENIX (AP) — 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.

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