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Originally Posted by Roch M4
It's exactly for this kind of situation that I don't believe in autonomous cars... the autonomous car will be able to stop in front of a stopped vehicle but unable to predict that the truck in the back will jam it, while a real driver will change lanes, even at the risk of taking a ditch or side accident to avoid getting run over like a common mosquito! Maybe in this situation the driver already shifted to the left to avoid a deadly crash
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I disagree. An autonomous vehicle has the ability to monitor traffic all around it and calculate many exit strategies ahead of time. There is also a chance that an autonomous vehicle could have positioned itself in a safer circumstance from the onset. No one will know in this instance, but the tech can monitor more variables than a human. That's not to say that an experienced defensive driver couldn't make an equally good decision. But it would be more of an educated guess than a calculated maneuver.