I hope they wouldn't be that shortsighted. If they start suspending employees because of getting caught on camera not reacting to the car's screw up in time they're going to create a lot of distrust and encourage concealment of issues that they'll need to know about to make a safe solution.

Obviously the error was made by the human who wrote the software that drove the car... hence, human error. QED.

we can only assume it was in fact in autonomous mode.