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I reckon I am quite a long way yet from allowing a software engineer, backed up by a committee to make the necessary decision on who live and who dies when it boils down to that final crucial choice.
As for the semi autonomous features that are popping up. I have my worries about a lot of them, mainly based on the concerns above about drivers becoming (Even more) complacent behind the wheel. You can really expect people to zone out when the car does most of the work. That being a given, people will take crucial seconds to work out which way is up when after a three quarter hour commute their car suddenly says "help me, I can't work out where the lanes are" at 100kmh as it is headed in the wrong direction.
I base that on how badly I have seen human drivers cope day after day with messy lane markings on Melbourne's Western ring Rd due to roadworks, markings that go every which way in at least two colours, and that is when it is dry and the ones they have painted out in black don't shine as though they are white but people have been driving over them for a couple of years. Just imagine the dozey driver trying to work out where they should go in the couple of seconds before they hit something after the car suddenly surrenders and "Gives" control back to them.
You could only hope that autonomous braking stopped the car before it actually hit something, and that those following were similarly equipped, or driven by drivers who were actually awake and attentive.
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