I'm fairly certain that multiple reports indicated the Uber system made no attempt to stop prior to the impact.
I watched the video and by paying attention to the lane stripes, I saw no attempt at braking before they paused the video just before the impact would be seen.
I do not claim to know where the failure happened in the car's collision avoidance system, I just know one happened. Like with a plane crash, experts need to analyze the records, figure out what happened, and issue a public report so all the other developers can either validate that the problem doesn't exist in their systems(uber's engineers were idiots), or fix the problem in their own systems, and it can be added to the battery of validation tests so it doesn't happen again.
Even if the owners of Uber avoid criminal prosecution for negligent homicide (or whatever the equivalent charge is there), the company and all its assets should, in its entirety, become the property of the next of kin of the person they killed.
Given that she was homeless, there is probably no real next of kin. I know I wouldn't leave anybody I consider 'kin' homeless.
That said, take a step back. Do you support, say, handing all of UPS or Fedex's assets over to somebody killed in an accident involving one of their trucks? Because think about it, they're handing control over to unproven human drivers that could kill somebody at any time.
If anything Uber did apply due diligence by having a professional, paid, human driver that was
supposed to be able to take over at any time. Hell, with as unreliable as Uber self driving cars are supposed to be, requiring intervention every dozen miles or so, the driver should be much better at paying attention than, say, a Waymo/Google driver, which is in a car that needs an intervention only about twice a year.
To be fair, Arizona's governor made the decision to allow those tests on Arizona roads.
Under the premise that they were at least developed enough to probably not kill anybody, with the potential to save lives with their development and deployment.