&gt; e.g. Child darts in front of car. Slam on brakes and hope for best or swerve off road (which probably isn&#x27;t a cliff) or into traffic? And perhaps there is a different calculus if the car isn&#x27;t carrying a passenger.<p>I think its fair to say that the car might have an engine that decides to preserve human life at the cost of human injury.<p>To avoid killing the child, it may serve into traffic if and only if doing so has a high likelihood of survival for all passengers.<p>If it can&#x27;t determine that; it&#x27;ll take the conservative approach and break to mitigate the damage of the impact to the child.<p>Regardless the decision engine of the car isn&#x27;t perfect. I&#x27;d have a hard time seeing it predict serving left to cause a 4 car pile up, instead of right to cause a 5 car pile up. How could it know? At some point, it&#x27;ll just short-circuit its decisions because time is passing, and its critical to do <i>something</i> rather than simply slow down and maintain course.