These trolley problems make the assumption that the car can perfectly distinguish pedestrians from other obstacles, however, in the real world this will probabl

These trolley problems make the assumption that the car can perfectly distinguish pedestrians from other obstacles, however, in the real world this will probably not be the case. It is difficult for self driving cars to distinguish pedestrians from a bunch of realistic cardboard cutouts(image recognition fails), mannequins(point cloud matching fails), a street level animated billboard(motion recognition fails), a herd of moose(thermographic recognition fails), or random noise. If one takes the fact that the problem is partially observable into account, many of these moral issues disappear. We can control the environment inside the car making it easier to be certain that a human is inside. Because the car is certain that it contains a human, and less certain that it is running into humans, it should take actions to preserve the life of the occupant.