> e.g. Child darts in front of car. Slam on brakes and hope for best or swerve off road (which probably isn't a cliff) or into traffic? And perhaps there is a d

> e.g. Child darts in front of car. Slam on brakes and hope for best or swerve off road (which probably isn't a cliff) or into traffic? And perhaps there is a different calculus if the car isn't carrying a passenger. I think its fair to say that the car might have an engine that decides to preserve human life at the cost of human injury. To avoid killing the child, it may serve into traffic if and only if doing so has a high likelihood of survival for all passengers. If it can't determine that; it'll take the conservative approach and break to mitigate the damage of the impact to the child. Regardless the decision engine of the car isn't perfect. I'd have a hard time seeing it predict serving left to cause a 4 car pile up, instead of right to cause a 5 car pile up. How could it know? At some point, it'll just short-circuit its decisions because time is passing, and its critical to do something rather than simply slow down and maintain course.