[gambiting]

I'm almost certain that the footage was modified to ride the public opinion of "it's too dark to see her, so it was her fault!" even though the car should be able to operate in complete darkness thanks to LIDAR and radar sensors. Uber never plays by the rules, I wouldn't expect them to suddenly be super honest about this.

[jjoonathan]

Modified? We would never! No, we simply, uh, compressed it. So that more people could view it without bringing down the server. Standard practice.

"So what does the uncompressed footage look like?"

Intern lost it.

[sschueller]

There are some odd artifacts in the video[1]. Like that the brightness is very low and there is black blob over part of her which then disappears.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKBy4_3azBg

[Someone1234]

I'd be surprised if it was actually modified seems too big of a liability.

If it was, someone should be going to jail as a result, since that's the footage they seemingly handed over to the police as evidence in the investigation.