However, the advanced, LLM based systems with tons of world knowledge (and therefore can easily tell if a pedestrian is abnormal) take tons of processing power and latency, so cannot be deployed in the current AI driving systems. So it'll take 5-10 years for this to be solved.
Also hope you know that Germany isn't the center of the world. Its not even the center in terms of cars anymore. German regulators don't get to dictate the progress of self driving.
You are not afraid of corrupt bureaucrats, but of idealistic innovators trying to change the world?
By the way, there is no way to tame safety via checklists or 'policies'. Boeing sure had checklists and layers of policies trying to control risk, can't save them when they outsource everything to workers who don't give a crap about their job.
But people in the AI world care, they absolutely do care about what they build. Pride and passion in their work beats any checklists, and I'm confident self driving cars will be a massive safety boon for all.