There were multiple failures here. Let's not put all of the blame on the victim. This particular location has the sidewalk end on one side, and there is a pave

There were multiple failures here. Let's not put all of the blame on the victim. This particular location has the sidewalk end on one side, and there is a paved section in the median which looks like it is intended for crossing. There is a small sign that indicates that you should not cross here. From the video, we can see that while there were street lights on the road, the area in which the apparent crossing existed was completely dark. A pedestrian may not have been able to see the sign indicating that you shouldn't cross here; or even if she did, there are so many roads that are built in pedestrian unfriendly ways that sometimes you just have to cross at unmarked crossings to avoid having to go substantially out of your way. Additionally, the video shows that the driver was distracted immediately before the crash. While the dash cam video seems to indicate that you can't see the pedestrian until it was probably already too late, human eyes are a lot more sensitive over a greater dynamic range than most video cameras, so there's a good chance that if the driver were paying attention, she would have seen the pedestrian before the car did. The thing about safety systems and standards are that there should be some redundancy in them. People make mistakes, so you shouldn't have to rely on every actor acting perfectly to remain safe. In this case, there was a failure on many parts leading to a tragedy. It's definitely worth investigating whether Uber had done enough to ensure that operators will be staying alert during the entire test, and whether Uber had done enough testing before being on open roads of small, possibly moving obstacles on dark parts of the road, like pedestrians, deer, and so on. I'd also put a good amount of blame on whatever department designed that portion of road and sidewalk.