It seems that both of the people involved had quite the interesting history - from the London Daily Mail:
Convicted armed robber who was behind the wheel of self-driving Uber when it killed pedestrian as she wheeled her bike across a road
This is the driver who was behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber car when it hit and killed a pedestrian - in a mugshot taken when she was serving a felony sentence for attempted armed robbery.
Rafaela Vasquez, 44, was the 'safety driver' of the automated Volvo when it hit Elaine Herzberg, 49, on Sunday night in Tempe, Arizona.
She had two felony convictions when she was hired by Uber for its self-driving car trials in the Phoenix, Arizona, area.
Her January 2001 conviction for attempted armed robbery led to a five-year sentence of which she served more than four years, being freed in November 2004.
And to make this story even more of a 2018 social train-wreck:
At the time she was known as Rafael and identified as male. It is not known when she transitioned to female.
And the victim:
Victim: Elaine Herzberg, 49, was homeless and had a string of drugs convictions when she was killed walking in front of the Uber self-driving car on Sunday night
Life in this era.
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