No, the view is that Uber (and city officials, and some of the press) are spinning hard to shift the blame to the victim of this manslaughter, by using words such as jaywalker.
FYI, this is an American thing[1]. There's no jaywalker in Russian, for instance. Or French. If you know any other language that has a word for that, let me know.
It didn't even spread to the UK:
"In other countries such as the United Kingdom, the word is not generally used and there are no laws limiting how pedestrians can use public highways."
