What Has Self Driving Meant for Raphael Vasquez?

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Before the crash happened in two thousand 18, there was a lot of excitement about self driving cars. It truly did feel, as you said, that like autonomy was around the corner. People were rolling out very ambitious time lines of how we were goin to have robo taxis and life just a matter of years. And ou no tech workers themselves were paying attention to these headlines too. When i talked to some former uber employees for this story, they themselves said, 'We didn't have a ton to go on at this time'

Paris Marx is joined by Lauren Smiley to discuss what we’ve learned about the Uber crash since in happened in March 2018, what that’s meant for the vehicle operator who’s been charged, and whether the justice system made the right call in blaming her instead of Uber.

Lauren Smiley is a WIRED contributor and freelance journalist based in San Francisco. Follow Laren on Twitter at @laurensmiley.

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Lauren interviewed Rafaela Vasquez and dug into the substance of the past four years of information on the Uber crash for WIRED.
Last summer, Vasquez’ legal team argued the grand jury hadn’t heard to full version of events before indicting her.
In 2019, the NTSB’s final report placed primary blame on the operator, but secondary blame on Uber, the pedestrian, and the state.
In 2015, Lauren wrote about the “shut-in economy” and social divides being entrenched by on-demand services.

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