The pedestrian didn't seem to notice the car. The car appears to be a Ford Fusion (probably hybrid). If it was in charge-sustaining mode, the car might have been very difficult to hear.
The pedestrian was wearing a yellow hat and pushing a pink bicycle. Her shirt was dark though. She was visible to the camera for only about .77 seconds prior to impact. A human being would take 0.5-2 seconds to react to the object in the road once it became visible. Depending on the human, the pedestrian might have been visible for a couple of seconds longer than we see her in the footage, but the safety driver appeared to be distracted.
The reaction time of the autonomous car should be milliseconds. Assuming that the dashed lane markers are fairly evenly spaced, the car doesn't appear to have decelerated at all from my perspective. According to the police, the car was traveling 38 MPH, or roughly 61 km/h. On dry pavement with decent tires, the stopping distance in meters without accounting for any reaction time should be about (s^2)/(250*.8) with s = speed in km/hr... so, about 18 meters, or to be generous, 60 feet.
See https://korkortonline.se/en/th... .
Judging from the aerial layer on Google maps, the distance between the beginning of a lane marker and the beginning of a subsequent lane marker is 30 feet or so. From this, I think the first time you see the victim in the video she's about 43 feet away (.77 seconds at 38 MPH).
Here's the thing though... the LIDAR should have seen this in time to at least swerve to avoid. The LIDAR should also have seen the victim before the victim was visible in the headlights. In my state, the driver has the responsibility to swerve to avoid even if there isn't enough time to stop. It's obvious that there was nobody in the left lane (even in the blind spot, which isn't blind with LIDAR).
This really seems like an example of where an autonomous car could have saved a life that would have been lost due to a human driver's natural limitations, but it failed to do so. The car should have been able to see hundreds of feet, and the car should have had practically zero reaction time. Just as you would be lenient in judging and older driver for longer reaction times, I think we should hold the autonomous car to a higher standard.
This thing was a test vehicle. The debug-level logging of the incident should be made public so that if there was a bug that killed this woman, the truth will be known.