> Certainly it would not be the case in the event of the lead car braking erroneously. Not certain how you are rationalizing that. If I think i see a deer ju

> Certainly it would not be the case in the event of the lead car braking erroneously. Not certain how you are rationalizing that. If I think i see a deer jump out of the woods and hit the brakes then a) I didn't need to brake, but my understanding of the world said I did, safety first!! b) the car behind me would still be at fault. Self driving vehicles would be the same. They could easily see something that a driver wouldn't and thus hit the brakes and stop a collision, but the human driver behind it wouldn't' see the obstacle and therefor think the autonomous car was breaking erroneously.