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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.

Assuming the kid came out of a blind spot (parked car) I imagine the car would choose the head-on collision.

I have had that happen to me. It was a busy 4 lane highway alongside a city park with a row of cars parked along the side of the park. I was on the inside lane. 5 year old kid shoots out into the highway chasing a ball. I was lucky there was no car in the right lane and was able to swerve right. The oncoming car in the inside lane also swerved to his right, but he was not as lucky.