I, too, have driven a lot more than two hours, and have yet to have an equivalent accident. That’s because I have never had a truck back into me. It is not a common thing. Indeed, it is so unlikely, I briefly wondered whether it was an accident at all, and not something to discredit AI. No, it seems it was an accident.
I think a general driving software strategy is to stop in a controlled fashion when something unfamiliar is happening, and to stay stopped until things have become familiar again. This would seem to be a better strategy than anything else. It would certainly be a better strategy than trying to take any evasive action, unless the software has been trained to cover that particular event. What it should not do is make a poor extrapolation from its prior data.
They could have a separate system that would sound the horn if a collision from any direction is predicted.
[ In the interests of full disclosure, I admit I am very tempted to say that the AI system may have no rear facing cameras, or cannot back up; and then go in search of evidence for this. But I am trying to be fair. ]
