Watching the road for hours at a time, day in and day out attentively is impossible. No human can do it. You're right that she shouldn't have been in that seat. No one should have as it's an almost impossible task. No one has that type of attention span or ability to react, especially when the situation is so boring. Humans can drive but even then, they will make mistakes. To expect there not to be mistakes or lapses of attention with no interaction is ridiculous. We are not built that way. Maybe some top athletes can do that, but even goalkeepers in soccer whose job is to watch the ball and stop it sometimes can't concentrate and they are selected based on this ability to only play 45 minutes at a time without a break. What tests did uber put this woman through before hiring her to make sure she was capable of the almost super human feat they asked of her? I bet none. The system could have prevented this crash easily but because the auto braking was turned off, it didn't. What kind of company tests a self driving car with the auto braking turned off? They should have known it would cause a collision sooner or later.

The pedestrian was not crossing at a designated crossing.

There is nothing more natural in a human environment than tools. A car is a tool.

It happened because one company was greedy, and negligent, - and has the money to pay the bill. The question is, will the jury really make them pay.

It happened just as much because one driver/monitor wasn't doing their job.

Saying opinions like statements of fact don't make them correct.

It's at least more useful to speak of legal liability, because that can become case law.