The article also mentions the pedestrian as "a woman walking", so it's not clear whether they are referring to a cyclist as a pedestrian, or whether they are getting different information and actually think it was a pedestrian. Very confusing
The video was released. Turns out it was a woman walking her bike.
Sad event, but it's likely a human driver would have killed her as well. She was on the road at night without lights, jaywalking without attention to the on-coming traffic.
One could argue the car was driving faster than it's headlight distance safely allowed. If so, humans are going to be quite frustrated with how slow autonomous cars drive at night.
