>I don't see how a self-driving car would even identify that it's doing something wrong in order to slam on the breaks. The navigation algorithm may be telling

>I don't see how a self-driving car would even identify that it's doing something wrong in order to slam on the breaks. The navigation algorithm may be telling the car to proceed at full speed, for example if the vision system fails to identify an obstacle, but SDV cars also have radar sensors that act as a failsafe [unless the object is invisible to radar, of course...].