[Bubba_Leroy]

There are better hypotheticals than this one.

You are driving by a park and a kid runs out in front of you chasing a ball. You cannot break in time to avoid hitting him. If you swerve right, you will hit a bunch of other kids in the park. If you swerve left, you will hit an oncoming car head on.

Which will your car choose?

[Dr. Sivana]

You are driving by a park and a kid runs out in front of you chasing a ball. You cannot break in time to avoid hitting him. If you swerve right, you will hit a bunch of other kids in the park. If you swerve left, you will hit an oncoming car head on.

Which will your car choose?

The funny thing is, I actually HAVE had the catastrophic brake failure, as a new driver in a 1968 Dodge Dart in knee deep rain. My choices were rear ending the car in front of me, a headon going left, or a telephone pole going right. I chose the pole, bumped my head (no shulder belt), totaled the car, and got a $35 ticket "failure to drive right".

In the scenario you describe, the Hyundai self drivers ASSUME any kid on the side of the road is going to scoot out, and drives even slower. Assuming the kid came out of a blind spot (parked car) I imagine the car would choose the head-on collision.