In many of these cases, the self-crashing car crashes because it does not recognize what is really there. It identifies it as something else.
Maybe a listing of what the car thought it saw just before a crash would prove useful.
And if something that the car does not know exists is there, what would the car think it was. What would a self-driving car think if a helicopter (or a UFO) lands on the highway?
Also, what if a vehicle violates the concept of what that type of vehicle is supposed to look like? I see many cases where human drivers did not recognize a school bus. It even happened to me. I saw a vehicle with amber lights flashing three times on one side, then three times of the vehicle. I thought it was a trash truck. Then the lights turned red with the sane behavior. I still did not recognize it as a school bus because the law says "alternately flashing lights".
This bus does not have "alternately flashing lights" because some do-gooder put strobing lights in instead of regular bulbs to "get the driver's attention". It removed the driver's mind from thinking "school bus" because the "alternately flashing lights" were not recognizable.
I had another event where neither the human driver nor the self-driving car could possibly get it right. The law says to stop for a school bus whenever the lights are flashing and the stop arm is out.
I was on a four-lane highway approaching an intersection where the light was green. There were three semi trucks in the left turn lane waiting to turn. I drove on through the intersection. Only after I had entered the intersection could I see that traffic was stopped because a school bus had its lights flashing and the stop arm out. But I could not see it because the trucks blocked sight of it.
) soooo... maybe some retraining should be in your plans... PDQ!
