I agree with you, and yet at the same time I’m not sure how to word it for the general public so as not to be “tone deaf.” You would almost need to accompany such statements with video, or somehow humanize the actions of the car.
A human driver can feel remorse and/or psychological trauma when someone commits suicide by traffic even if there WAS something they could have done, but didn’t react quickly or appropriately enough. Because of that, we can sympathize with the driver even if, in retrospect, there was some better action they could have taken. Generally we wouldn’t talk to the driver about it, because we understand it was traumatic for the driver. A computer does not get the same benefit of the doubt.
A human driver can feel remorse and/or psychological trauma when someone commits suicide by traffic even if there WAS something they could have done, but didn’t react quickly or appropriately enough. Because of that, we can sympathize with the driver even if, in retrospect, there was some better action they could have taken. Generally we wouldn’t talk to the driver about it, because we understand it was traumatic for the driver. A computer does not get the same benefit of the doubt.