That's not just one error but a whole book of errors, and that last bit combined with the reliance on the operator to take action is criminal. (And if it isn't it should be.)

I hope that whoever was responsible for this piece of crap software loses a lot of sleep over it, and that Uber will admit that they have no business building safety critical software. Idiots.

For 6 seconds the system had crucial information and failed to relay it, for 1.3 seconds the system knew an accident was going to happen and failed to act on that knowledge.

Drunk drivers suck, but this is much worse. This is the equivalent of plowing into a pedestrian with a vehicle while you're in full control of it because you are afraid that your perception of the world is so crappy that you will over-react to such situations often enough that the risk of killing someone you know is there is perceived as the lower one.

Not to mention all the errors in terms of process and oversight that allowed this p.o.s. software to be deployed in traffic.