&gt; The question posed was: should your self-driving car swerve to avoid those kids who just got off the school bus, sacrificing you and the passengers?<p>That strikes me as seeing the car computer as having the same limitations as a human driver.<p>More likely the car computer has long since recognized the bus as being, well, a bus, and thus slowed down to provide shorter breaking distance etc.<p>These are the same exact rules that will be drilled into any driver if they get a sane course before being issued the license.<p>Keep in mind that right now what is regulating speed limits etc, is human reaction times.<p>Once held down, breaks can make a car stop very quickly.<p>But the actual breaking distance is just a fraction of the distance needed for a human driven car to stop.<p>Most of that distances comes from how long it takes for the human brain to go through the steps of noticing, recognizing, and acting on something.<p>Likely any computer driven car out there will be the most defensive driver on the road. Frankly more vehicle related deaths comes from driver hubris than anything else.