This is a great point. Autonomous driving is very primitive right now and the idea of an "all knowing" computer judging our lives is ridiculous. It'll react the same way we react, with dumb reflexes. If an obstacle appears on the road, it will brake or swerve away from the target. It won't have time to weigh some massive AI fuzzy logic about who dies. It will have no idea what the survivability of any of this is, and like a human it will try to avoid the collision.

It seems that 60's AI is back in fashion and now part of autonomous car culture. There's this faulty idea of this super brain driving these cars. The reality is we're looking at dumb as rocks firmwares that can't even drive in the snow or heavy rain properly. Frankly, I think these firmwares should stay dumb like the human reflex system. Too much "engineer logic" and other questionable heuristics will just lead to bugs, lag, etc. I don't want my car to drive off the cliff because of some software bug. I don't need some Samsung engineer on a time constraint who couldn't spare the cycles for proper edge detection because he was wasting those cycles on 'sport mode' which marketing made a big fuss over delivering this quarter. I want dumb and simple code to do what's a dumb and simple task.