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You are making a (convenient) assumption with no supporting evidence whatsoever and which is strongly contradicted by the evidence. It is very clear that the vehicle caught the pedestrian totally by surprise. It is also very clear that she paused and looked before crossing. The only plausible explanation is that the headlights were too low. At night essentially all you see of approaching vehicles is the headlights. Both the height above the road and the distance between headlights varies widely among vehicles so that the only real gauge you get of a vehicle's distance is the brightness of the lights. Because headlights are used to enable humans to see to operate vehicles, there is a minimum below which the level of headlights can go before it simply cannot be operated at night. That means that while looking at approaching headlights at night there is no clear upper limit on how far away it might be, there is pretty clear lower limit and the lower limit is what you're concerned with when attempting to cross the road. THE NEW DANGER HERE IS THAT VEHICLES OPERATED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAN FUNCTION WITHOUT ANY HEADLIGHTS AT ALL. Many accidents have been caused by pedestrians being caught by surprise by electric vehicles because they are virtually silent compared to ones driven by combustion engines. To correct that problem, many jurisdictions are requiring that they artificially maintain a minimum level of noise so pedestrians can hear them coming. In the same way, with AI impending, we need to require vehicles be designed to AUTOMATICALLY shut down and become inoperable whenever the illumination drops below a specified minimum at night. This is an absolute necessity when vehicles have AI and sensors that can see with no visible light. Your readiness to make an assumption with nothing whatsoever supporting it that is so strongly contradicted by obvious evidence IMHO raises questions about what vested interests you have in this issue. Such strong confirmation bias as you are displaying (eagerness to accept a conclusion despite there being no evidence whatsoever to support it and strong evidence against it) almost always results from a strong vested interest. It anything, videos at night tend to show a lot _more_ detail than humans can see because our eyes get dazzled by the light in ways that wash out the entire image while a video image may get washed out in one area but still show detail in another.