Should driverless cars kill their own passengers to save a pedestrian?

[Aroura]

My understanding is that the cars will have manual override.  At the same time that Idisgree they are idiotic, I agree that this is not some moral issue.  Like the train track dilema.  But this one fails to give me much of a dilema.  The car will do what it is programmed to do, which will be to try and avoid killing anyone.  And the fact is, it will probably do a better job of it than a human.

I don't see how human drivers are actually better than a computer, TBH.  The computer won't be tempted to text while driving, or drive after drinking, or get distracted by the screaming toddler in the backseat,or the bee that just flew in the open window, or the hot coffee it just spilled in it's lap.  It will not panic and hit the accelerator instead of the break. It will never drive while tired because it must get to work even though the baby kept it up til 4am.   Etc. You get my point.

I'm not 100% for them yet, but I do not fear them just because they don't have a human brain.