I wonder if they have a camera pointed at the safety driver? I'm curious if he is telling the truth, or was just distracted and could have theoretically braked for the woman.

Interestingly, pointing the finger at the driver is a get-out-of-"jail" card for Uber, but will ruin his life.

They can claim he's an integral safety for the test of the whole self-driving system, and he failed to do his job.

Which would make other safety drivers either think "I have to pay 100 %attention" (which they should, anyway), or "I'm outta here!"