I find it so hilarious that these threads always seem to degenerate into moral discussions about some fantasy world where driverless cars have to understand the

I find it so hilarious that these threads always seem to degenerate into moral discussions about some fantasy world where driverless cars have to understand the meaning of everything in the world in order to make judgement calls about the worth of different human lives. Literally all a driverless car has to do is hit the brakes if it's going to hit an obstacle. There's no moral decisions, no discussions about who deserves to live and who should die. Just use the brakes. I just wrote the code. And it's open source so any car company is free to use it. Here it is: if (obstacle) then { brakes = true }. You're welcome.