I agree with everything you said, as long as the vehicle has a clear line of sight of the road ahead and there is enough room to drive off of the road if someth

I agree with everything you said, as long as the vehicle has a clear line of sight of the road ahead and there is enough room to drive off of the road if something unexpected happens. In the situation mentioned there is a blindspot where a child could be (for whatever reason) and a wall on the other side of the road. The vehicle was traveling fast enough so that it could not stop or avoid the child and if it crashed into the wall it would kill the passengers, in my opinion this vehicle in this situation was traveling too fast. How about this scenario, say you purchase an autonomous supercar that can travel at 150+ MPH down the highway and a deer approaches the road, the vehicle should slow down to a point where it can safely avoid the deer no matter what random action it takes, correct? If the deer hits the car, everybody loses so it is in everyone's best interest to avoid that situation even if it means that person gets to work a few seconds later every day because there are always deer at a certain place on the highway. This is especially true in cities, yes, autonomous cars could probably "safely" travel at 100+ MPH but if something unexpected happens it would not be acceptable to hit several pedestrians due to the unknown happening, like someone or an animal running out into the street.