[ubernostrum]

I'm pretty sure the correct behaviour is to not come around a corner so fast that you can't stop for a non-yet-visible obstruction.

Do you actually practice this? Setting aside legality concerns (many freeways have minimum as well as maximum speeds), if you truly did this at every curve and corner you'd be more likely to cause than to prevent an accident. The number of times there will be something you avoid by slowing down will be outweighed by the number of times your speed differential relative to surrounding traffic causes an accident (and it is speed differential, not speed itself, which is responsible for virtually all "speed-related" accidents).

[mseebach]

For truly blind corners, yes. However, I don't have great faith in my ability to correctly judge all partially blind corners, and occasionally find myself surprised.

I don't advocate slamming on the brakes seconds before the turn, there's such a thing as slowing down safely as well.

All of this is something AIs will be nearly infinitely better at doing safely than even a minimally impaired (tired, distracted) human driver.