> This puts the fault squarely on Uber’s doorstep, though there was never much reason to think it belonged anywhere else.

Are you kidding me? At least 80% of the comments I saw online the following week were blaming the woman.

It seems to me like Uber's self-driving system is absolute trash. But they were in a hurry to "go live" with it, because they need it so that the company can become profitable ASAP. And thanks to the deregulation bill from last year (which was almost universally praised online), they could actually do that, too.