It's "predictable" that jaywalking will lead to death? That a killed/injured pedestrian was jaywalking can be used in defending the motorist in court. But the vehicle code and road infrastructure does not assume that `jaywalking == death sentence`. Drivers deal with jaywalking every single day -- if death was to be expected, driving and jaywalking laws and regulations would be much, much different than they are now.
The fact that a computer was behind the wheel is the most important factor in this discussion, because the argument for self-driving vehicles is that they, unlike humans, can react to abnormal situations such as jaywalking.
It’s predictable that when you (illegally) put yourself in harm’s way, you might be harmed or even killed. This was a terrible outcome, but it’s no more the fault of the computer that was driving the car than it would have been if it were a human driver. If I go walking into traffic, as a logical person, I fully expect to be hit and injured or killed. The most important laws where jaywalking is concerned are not traffic laws, but rather the laws of physics.
Thankfully this is not the outcome of each and every jaywalking incident, but it is a possibility with all of them. That’s the risk you consciously accept when you walk in front of moving vehicles that weigh thousands of pounds.
The fact that a computer was behind the wheel is the most important factor in this discussion, because the argument for self-driving vehicles is that they, unlike humans, can react to abnormal situations such as jaywalking.