Because the other car had somewhat momentarily blocked your view, you had not been able to see that this stalled car was a menace-in-waiting to you and your car. Diagnosing What Happens In Stalled Car CrashesLet’s take out our Sherlock Holmes magnifying glass and try to ferret out salient characteristics of these kinds of automobile-based death-defying (though sometimes death resulting) incidents. As I earlier suggested, sometimes you can maneuver out of the situation, while other times there is not any viable recourse and you get pinned into ramming into the stalled car. Would a LIDAR device have potentially aided in detecting the stalled car? On another notable facet of the incident, the human driver says that there was insufficient time for him to react.

Source: Forbes May 26, 2019 15:22 UTC