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Originally Posted by photon
Yeah I'm kind of running on the assumption that the car would have all the relevant data (which is a big assumption I agree, but in principle there shouldn't be any reason it doesn't and it should in fact have far more information).
I know I've almost caused an accident because I braked to avoid hitting a dog, if I'd had eyes on the back of my head and had seen how close the car was behind me I might have opted to definitely injure or kill the dog instead of risking injuring the people in the cars behind me. Maybe, though I don't know if I could have. Similar thing happened with a mom and baby ducks, though not nearly as close, just got honked at.
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Actually, you would not have
caused that, the car in back of you would have
caused it and
been at fault. Following too closely is a common cause of accidents.
This would not change with a computer, fundamentally, the highway traffic act would have to be programmed into the system, as well as a vehicle stopping distance calculator.