No, indeed it turns out this is a very well lit, wide open area and your eyes would have had no problem seeing and predicting her path from many many feet away. As of course could the $$$ industrial cams Uber actually uses to inform its vision.
There are no alternate versions of the dashcam available. However, there are comparisons of the same location made by other drivers that make it pretty clear this is a fairly well-lit stretch of road. [1] It looks nothing like the released Uber footage.
[1]: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/03/police-chief-said-uber-...
In any case: according to police "[the victim] would have been visible to 85% of motorists at a distance of 143 feet (44 m), 5.7 seconds before the car struck [her]" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg#Distr...)
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/03/police-chief-said-uber-...