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No system can avoid failure 100% of the time. It may find itself going too fast with a unexpected loss of some control - brake failure, intentional sabotage, (imperceptible) oil slick, whatever. However, the system still has some control to choose between several terrible and costly outcomes. It must choose its victim. How should it chose?

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Does it really matter? Human drivers are dime a dozen and act vastly differently under stress. It has not been tested.

Armchair scenarios do not help, we need actual research in simulators at high stress.

Does what humans actually do matter? What matters is what we want the machines to do, which is going to be worked out between buyers, manufacturers, lawyers, lawmakers, and the rest of us.

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