I’m generally anti “self driving” as it’s demonstrably not safe in the general case, but this particular case seems like something that anyone could have done,

I’m generally anti “self driving” as it’s demonstrably not safe in the general case, but this particular case seems like something that anyone could have done, and possibly impossible to have avoided (the self driving car braked immediately). If you’re following a car around a corner, and that car hits someone and does not stop, your first indication that there’s a person would be a ground level pedestrian momentarily appearing after the car had finished running them over. This is actually an ideal case for self driving tech as their camera positioning gives them a lower vantage point, and it’s possible the victim would not ever be visible to a human driver.