What is the decision? The car will follow exactly the rules of the road. If the car behind it continues to barrel forward, that driver did not allow for adequate stopping distance. In this scenario, that driver is at fault.<p>Of course that doesn&#x27;t say anything for the safety of the child, but just as we don&#x27;t expect humans to be able to account for every single scenario, neither can we require a computer to do so.<p>For every one of these supposed ethical dilemmas, replace the computer with the most pedantic driver imaginable: this person has literally memorized the driver&#x27;s manual. Ask that person how they would respond in that situation. That is how the computer would respond. There are no choices to be made: the choices have already been made by the legislators who enacted the driving laws.<p>I imagine the first set of self-driving cars will require a huge bumper sticker (like the ones they put on learner cars: &quot;STUDENT DRIVER&quot;) that indicates this car will not exceed the speed limit and will not deviate from the rules. Everyone else can adapt accordingly.