I absolutely agree - and this is precisely the option I elected to implement for the autonomous vehicles I worked on. Interestingly enough, I did all this auto

I absolutely agree - and this is precisely the option I elected to implement for the autonomous vehicles I worked on. Interestingly enough, I did all this autonomous vehicles work during my PhD, and my actual thesis ended up being about how best to make decisions when the time taken to make the decision affects the outcome. This best-of-two-possible-collisions scenario is absolutely an example of this type of problem; the longer you think about which option is best, the less time you have to actually implement a solution.