The video from the self-driving Uber car was released.
The victim is visible about 1.5 seconds before the collision. Not a lot of time for a driver to react but I would expect a self-driving car to be able to detect far better than this. Doesn’t help that the person behind the wheel wasn’t watching the road and the car was a couple miles over the speed limit.
Theoretically, if the self-driving car was done right, you wouldn’t have to watch the road.