I don't know how much Google is perfecting the technology, but I agree with the sentiment about the other car makers. There should be the equivalent of a "do no harm" first approach when AI technology crosses some threshold and goes into life-or-death territory. People who talk about how computers are safer drivers than humans in the aggregate still don't seem to ask questions about the split second decisions humans can take when they are about to crash (and in general, all the pattern matching instincts humans have in potential crash situations)

http://bogbit.com/vancouver-man-sacrifices-self-to-save-wife...