Chain reaction braking, unnecessarily has caused many accidents (witnessed by me). Driving on I-95 in Florida you have (upgrades) where bridges are were built (limiting sight). Heavy congestion causes unnecessary braking. Several rear ends were witnessed on a trip north from the keys.
Never highway brake.
Im glad you posted this because it is good to know what cars may not respond the way a human was trained.
Try braking on the Merritt parkway and see what happens
The person in front may also be partially considered at fault if they didn't have a good reason, but the person following will always be considered at fault.
Predicting what a driver will do is a large part of defensive driving.
I'm more worried about false positives causing unexpected hard braking and leading to an increase in high-speed rear-end collisions on the highways. These are really uncommon now, but could increase if false positives are common.
Its like non-corrupt red light cameras, they do reduce red light running and do increase the number of accidents. They reduce fatal accidents but increase nearly harmless rear-end collisions. So property damage and loss of life are reduce, but speeders and tailergaters get the majority in my town because there are no pedestrians and no one thinks they will be the ones to cause an accident.
Children that small should be in the back. It is the workaround for a bad situation (perhaps you have to transport 1 more kid than you back seat can handle and you don't like this one so much). This is also well understood and studied already.
There are commonalities between this and that. But in this situation wouldn't turning off assisted driving in its entirety be better.
Commuter and congested driving conditions by regular drivers assume a pattern of high speed. I do not want my car to have unconditional ability to brake when a computer thinks it should. Period.
Yet... We are now in phases of non-human controlled vehicles and it is a safety requirement to know what outcomes a computer can place on a car going at high speeds.
I would like to be able to create actions that cause my safety to increase against a computer assisted car. If decals (or any actions) make me safer because it makes a computer controlled car behave a certain way, then i will do it.
(my next book: how to defensively drive against self driving cars...hmm. )
If the self driving feature can be completely disabled, that would be much better than just disabling the brakes. Then drive it to someone to fix the assistive driving tech instead of trying to use jerry rigged assistive driving tech.