The self-driving cars ability to accurately decide on which lives to save and which to sacrifice very much depends on its ability to detect each and every one of those lives to begin with.
Is there a risk of self-driving cars identifying some pedestrians but not others? The short answer is yes, there is. While the famous philosophical dilemma, commonly known as “the trolly problem”, is not completely irrelevant, there are much bigger ethical fish to fry.
