Generally I agree with you, drivers get away with murder too easily, however in this case this woman's crime was not paying attention in a self driving car. What if instead she had been paying attention but applied the brakes too late, but it wasn't enough? What if she was paying attention but was confused by instructions from her employer to let the AI do its job? What if she had been in the same situation before but the car had previously stopped in exactly the same circumstances?

Even engineers become confused by LLM and think that it's so quirky that ChatGPT "hallucinates" when that's the nature of the technology. So how would you expect a layperson to actually know when they should apply the brake pedal in a moving vehicle that's supposed to drive itself (maybe)?

This is a bit more complicated than driving drunk and I'm fairly certain that the company responsible for the death did not seek a safety expert to copilot the vehicle, but rather any warm body willing to take an easy dead-end job.