In the circumstances seen in the video released by police, had a human driver hit and killed that person, it would've never been found guilty so, why blame the self driving car?
I'm 100% sure the technology on that car has better abilities to detect and avoid collisions than humans have...
Besides that, probably most people have no idea how much we're already exposed to fully automated equipment out there. Nowadays most planes take off, land and fly by themselves and how about laser surgury? You're trusting your eyes totally to a computer...
Justa few to mention...