Uber still has a responsibility to avoid hitting jaywalkers. I would be more sympathetic on a freway, but this seems negligent. If they can’t avoid hitting jaywalkers they need to keep testing in a less dangerous circumstance.
You're making the mistaken assumption that this accident could have been avoided at all. While autonomous vehicles should have a higher threshold for responsibility than human drivers, it's not possible to expect them to never be involved in accidents. For all we know, the jaywalker ran right out into the road.
