This is why self-driving vehicles will never be accepted in the west. OK, I'm including Japan in the west for this.

- Self driving software correctly stops.

- Human decision making overrides, and says go.

- Pedestrian gets hit.

- Self-driving vehicles are taken out of service.

Does anyone else see the irony of this situation? The software was right, and the humans were wrong, so shelve the software, and have all humans drive buses for the rest of the paralympics.

In the west, it's the story that counts.

But in China, the math would be calculated differently. The self-driving buses would keep rolling, without human supervisors.