Because Uber and possibly most other self-driving car makers aren't doing it right. First off, Waymo, Ford, and even Volvo (whose car was in the accident) have

Because Uber and possibly most other self-driving car makers aren't doing it right. First off, Waymo, Ford, and even Volvo (whose car was in the accident) have said that they want to skip Level 3 because expecting people to actually watch the road while they're "self-driven" is not reasonable. They saw from initial testing that the drivers were dosing off. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-17/ford-s-dozing-engineers-side-with-google-in-full-autonomy-push https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-17/ford-s-do... And I didn't know this until now, but it looks like Toyota is now thinking the same: http://www.motortrend.com/news/toyota-might-skip-level-3-autonomy/ http://www.motortrend.com/news/toyota-might-skip-level-3-aut... Second, if they were to at least attempt to do it right (like Tesla is doing now, but didn't do in the beginning either) is to force drivers to keep their hands on the wheel at all times. Also, Uber could have been watching its drivers with the cameras, and fired those that didn't stick with the program. And all of this doesn't even mention how Uber's self-driving system seems to be terrible. Lidar wasn't working, the car didn't brake, and they've had one intervention per 13 miles while Waymo has one per 5600 miles. So, my point is, Uber, the company, still seems to share most of the blame here, for all of those different reasons.