I wouldn't have asked the question if it was that simple :) If you have no other cars around you, are traveling less than 25mph and have plenty of stopping dist

I wouldn't have asked the question if it was that simple :) If you have no other cars around you, are traveling less than 25mph and have plenty of stopping distance, sure, 'see kid => hit brakes' should work to save everyone in that circumstance. If your assumption is that you won't get rear-ended because everyone will be using automated collision avoidance technology... Well, we're at least 15 years away from that. As someone who bikes and is used to seeing every other person on their phone while driving, fully self-driving vehicles can't come soon enough. But we need to have real discussions about who the self-driving vehicles will save in regular circumstances. I'm skeptical about them optimizing for, or even having the ability to optimize for saving people outside of the vehicle over protecting the occupants.