Nighttime dashcam videos typically do a very poor job of representing what a scene looks like to the human eyes. Here is a phone camera video of the same stretc

Nighttime dashcam videos typically do a very poor job of representing what a scene looks like to the human eyes. Here is a phone camera video of the same stretch of road as the accident took place on, at night: https://youtu.be/1XOVxSCG8u0?t=26 https://youtu.be/1XOVxSCG8u0?t=26 From this you can see how good the visibility is. We know that the visibility on this stretch of road was pretty good for nighttime driving. We know that the pedestrian that got hit had crossed an entire (empty) lane of traffic before entering the Uber vehicle's lane. I would say that any competent driver who was paying attention and who was driving a car with working headlights (or perhaps even without) would have spotted the pedestrian well in advance and been able to avoid the collision fairly easily. The fact that the Uber vehicle did not do so despite having an abundance of opportunity and despite having not only visible light data but also lidar and radar is almost certainly a massive failure on its part. Almost certainly this is due to a failure to integrate sensor data properly or to fail to categorize a pedestrian correctly. I have no faith that the local PD will do a good job here, but I do have faith that the NTSB will be exquisitely thorough, and I would bet hard-earned dollars that they are going to tear Uber's self-driving technology up one side and down the other.