I don't know what would have happened if "this guy programmed it", but the answer should be yes, the car should have seen the cyclist and it should have pressed the brakes.
This was an interesting post, too, by Brad Templeton who worked on Google's self-driving car project for a while:
This was an interesting post, too, by Brad Templeton who worked on Google's self-driving car project for a while:
http://ideas.4brad.com/almost-every-thing-went-wrong-uber-fa...