Those cars have multiple sensor feeds, many of which are far better than human vision. I have experience with off-the-shelf IR illuminators, and even an array o

Those cars have multiple sensor feeds, many of which are far better than human vision. I have experience with off-the-shelf IR illuminators, and even an array of half a dozen of cheapo ones improve low light object detection at distances of upto 40-50m by orders of magnitude. So I feel Uber would have selected whichever feed best supported the explanation that it was "impossible" to avoid such an accident, and handed it to investigators. Given the number of people agreeing with the "impossible to avoid" explanation even in a tech-savvy crowd like HN, I'd say the PR strategy's worked well and saved Uber some more bad press.