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My car (not a Tesla) has a collision warning system but no automatic breaking, and I wouldn't want it to with the number of false warnings I receive.

The public road right before the drive to my house has an s-turn in it. The CWS goes off about half the time I go through that series of turns just hundreds of feet from my turn. I can see the turn in the road and the guard rail ahead, the car sees a stationary object I'm driving straight towards at around 45mph. If it automatically braked with its current awareness, I might never get home or get rear-ended by people following.

I dunno. I've seen perfectly sober, intelligent humans drive into some extremely stupid "situations".

We aren't trying to build another human.

We are trying to build a car that doesn't crash.

No, we're trying to build a car that crashes less than humans.

If you want a car that doesn't crash, never build the car let alone drive it. Then it'll never crash.

The point is both reduction in fatalities and increase in human quality of life. Not an impossible perfection.

really? just google/bing something like "car crashed into a wall/barrier"

If not actively accelerating at them, like it did in San Francisco.