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Volvo also recommends not aiming your car at pedestrians

A reporter from the multi-platform network Fusion reached out to Volvo to ask how a sophisticated, street-ready self-driving car could plow into innocent bystanders so easily. Volvo spokesperson Johan Larsson responded that the self-driving capabilities are not as robust as we might expect. The standard package will only be active in stop-and-go city driving to help protect against sudden stops and fender-benders. But if you don't want to hit a person in the street, that will cost $3,000 extra. Larsson explains, “[Pedestrian detection functionality] is sold as a separate package."

Pedestrian detection functionality is sold as a separate package.

Waaagh! » Wed May 27, 2015 5:02 pm wrote:

Pedestrian detection functionality is sold as a separate package.

"The paper tigers roar at noon;
The sun is hot, the sun is high.
They roar in chorus, not in tune,
Their plaintive, savage hunting cry.

O, when you hear them, stop your ears
And clench your lids and bite your tongue.
The harmless paper tiger bears
Strong fascination for the young.

His forest is the busy street;
His dens the forum and the mart;
He drinks no blood, he tastes no meat:
He riddles and corrupts the heart.

But when the dusk begins to creep
From tree to tree, from door to door,
The jungle tiger wakes from sleep
And utters his authentic roar.

It bursts the night and shakes the stars
Till one breaks blazing from the sky;
Then listen! If to meet it soars
Your heart's reverberating cry,

My child, then put aside your fear:
Unbar the door and walk outside!
The real tiger waits you there;
His golden eyes shall be your guide.

And, should he spare you in his wrath,
The world and all the worlds are yours;
And should he leap the jungle path
And clasp you with his bloody jaws,

Then say, as his divine embrace
Destroys the mortal parts of you:
I too am of that royal race
Who do what we are born to do."

(A.D. Hope's "Tiger",
read by Tom O'Bedlam)