When you are driving you should be prepared to stop. If you're turning into a street you cannot see and you're going faster than you can stop, you're not prepared to stop - you're just hoping that no one is there. This should, and is too in Denmark, fully expected and enforced. This is not the same as as driving along the street and someone is jumping out in front of you.
I have now actually seen the movie of the crash and I can agree that it most likely was hard to avoid for a human. What surprices me is that the LiDAR completely missed her because she didn't run, she didn't jump, she was slowly walking across the road. I can't say if the light was too bad, a camera often looks much darker than what you see with the naked eye, not blinded by other lights. The driver was looking down on the instrument panel at the time of the crash, does he have some view of what the car sees there?
This looks like the exact situation the selfdriving cars are supposed to be able to avoid. A big object in the middle of the street. I expect the car to try to avoid this even though the bike didn't seem to have any reflexes. If the LiDAR doesn't catch this, I don't think they should be out in traffic at all.
