"Certain passenger death versus certain pedestrian death: protect the passengers." Pondering that question made me imagine some bad Sci-Fi future where self-dr

"Certain passenger death versus certain pedestrian death: protect the passengers." Pondering that question made me imagine some bad Sci-Fi future where self-driving cars end up being dangerous killer-robots for anybody but the passengers. If pedestrians have to fear these things, because they are programmed in a "Protect the pilot above all else!" way, it might hamper adoption just as badly.