[emp]

No mention of the fact that the human driven truck pulled out in front of the care. From the description it sounds like the car should have break breaking hard - one doesn't just hit the side of a truck - the driver didn't see the oncoming car either.

[throwaway2016a]

This is key. The truck was sideways in front of the car on a divided highway. That is not normal. And all the situations I can think of where that could happen involve really quick unexpected moves on the truck driver's part. And at high speed.

Combine that with the fact the truck was high enough that it was over the hood of the car (and therefor probably over the hight of many of the sensors).

I don't think as a human I would have done any better.