content: While I agreed with your sentiment initially, an interesting thought popped into my mind about half-way through the article: trolls. If a car is programmed and that programming includes an algorithm can lead to the car sacrificing itself (and potentially the driver), then that algorithm is well-defined and can be reverse-engineered. If it can be reverse-engineered, it will be reverse engineered, and now instead of having to consider the human element (for example, I'd probably run your dumb ass over in many instances) you have an exact formula for causing cars to crash.  The world is full of assholes that would be gleeful to leverage that knowledge to wreak havoc.