The first self-driving car fatality case put to rest who was responsible for killing a pedestrian. In this case, it was not the robot.

• A woman behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber that hit a pedestrian has been in legal limbo ever since.
• The operator faced negligent homicide charges after a 2018 crash killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg.
• Rafaela Vasquez on Friday pleaded guilty to endangerment in the case, avoiding prison time.

A guilty plea entered Friday offered an answer to the once-hypothetical ethics question of who is responsible when a self-driving car kills a pedestrian. 

Rafaela Vasquez, who was behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber SUV that struck and killed a pedestrian in March of 2018, pleaded guilty to endangerment related to the case, avoiding prison time.