Thanks for posting this kleinbl00 these are basically my own thoughts and discussions I've had with my own engineering friends. I feel like all of us agree that the question is interesting, but ultimately not one that an engineer should answer wholly. Another side to this is right now at this moment, there are hundreds of cars being driven by drunk, or manic people who have very little control over themselves or their faculties. Self driving cars aren't making a decision to save a childs life or you in the future, they are paying back the debt of hundreds of childrens lives who have died due to our own negligence and unsafe driving. In the future we will be looked at like monsters I imagine, for ever letting a single child get into a human controlled monster.