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This situation is so fucking contrived. Not one of the talking heads that brings this up is able to adequately explain how a robocar would get into a situation like this in the first place. They all go "OMG EVER HEARD OF BRAKE FAILURE?! Q.E.D" and it's absurd. A car traveling along autonomously in a built-up area, obeying the speed limit of 30km/h (or 20mph, here's hoping), and then suddenly! Its brakes fail and it trundles to a stop. Big whoop.
The people who flail their arms about over this particular concern-trolling conundrum don't seem able to comprehend that cars go out of control in the first place because their drivers are driving like incompetent morons. A car will only be in a situation where it's careening towards 30 people because the dipshit driver put it there.