In my mind this accident is on Uber no matter how you interpret the video. Scenario 1: Lets say the pedestrian was visible to the naked eye and sensors. The model and safety operator still didn't "see" her and act in time. Who to blame? Uber. Scenario 2: The lighting and environment was in a condition where neither the model nor the safety operator could see the road more than 10 feet in front of the car, yet neither…
Why on uber? It should be on the driver. That driver kept looking down almost the whole time. He is not employed to watch movies or something else. If he needs to watch some data then maybe 2 of them should be there.
It is entirely too easy for companies to hire poor people and call them "safeguards" with no regulation. I'll put my money on that the "safeguards" are poorly paid, poorly trained, over worked, and that the Uber are disregarding the many studies showing how incapable people are at doing a job like this (i.e. never ending monotonous surveillance interrupted by intense split second decisions). Come on, Uber implemented this system and put people in harms way, and their "safeguards" are not working and they should know that and take responsibility for that.