content: But at this moment we don't know if the car actually stopped by itself. If the LIDAR is not aware that it just killed someone it may have continued its drive and assumed that it just hit a bump in the road.  It is interesting to know did the car stop by itself or did the driver force the car to stop instead.  Technology is being sold as superior to people. It is being sold that it can hit the breaks at milliseconds instead of humans fractions of seconds. It is not supposed to be equal to humans but far better. Also it contains thousands of dollars of sensor equipment. If it is just equal to humans then why do we waste so much money on it when it adds nothing? My biggest concern is self driving trucks they start to experiment on now.