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The accident avoidance fallback stategy is an issue that has both moral and social issues. Similar "decisions" are not unfamilar. The problem is: there is no general agreement.
Example: While death during pregnany is less common than it once was it is still a threat, on the one the one hand through Eclampsia and other syndromes but also through treatments of cancers and other health issues. When given the "choice" between trying to save the mother or aborting the baby, a Catholic will be driven to save the baby even if it kills the mother, while a Jew will be driven to try to save the mother even if means losing the baby.
These rules will need to be "hardwired" in the motorcars. Shall we have Jewish, Catholic, Muslim etc. motorcars? Shall we have the cars tuned personally to ones own moral codex?
Kill the old lady to avoid a child? Crash into a group of people to avoid a schoolbus? Etc..
A few months ago at CVPR I asked the Google crew about their logic.. their answer was "avoid having an accident" :-)