[john_moscow]

Or alternatively focus on smart safety features like automatic radar-triggered braking and pedestrian recognition.

Unlike the general self-driving that needs to be 100% accurate, "brake when on a collision course with what appears to be a pedestrian" will save lives even if it works in 50% of the cases. And if you only engage it on straight road when the driver is not actively maneuvering, it will nicely cover the "got distracted" cases and won't cause any new crashes by braking when you are changing lanes or passing.

[giantg2]

It depend if that braking produces false positives and cause additional accidents, like eith Tesla's early phantom braking .