WATCH: Arizona police release disturbing video from inside a self-driving Uber as it hits and kills a person

Police in Tempe, Arizona on Wednesday released footage taken inside the self-driving Uber right before the car hit and killed a pedestrian.

The video, which appears to have been recorded as part of the testing of the car and was posted by Reuters' David Shepardson on Twitter, shows dashboard camera footage of a pedestrian crossing the street and being fatally hit by the car. It also shows the "safety driver" looking down until the car hit the woman.

Watch below:

Breaking: Tempe police release video of fatal self-driving car. Warning: the video shows just before the fatal impact and is disturbing. Video shows safety driver looking down for much of the time before impact pic.twitter.com/fzLAFBzG6q

— David Shepardson (@davidshepardson) March 21, 2018