"I'll give you the answer: Yes, they have already considered that."
Considered, and put it on the 'Edge case, hard, solve later, got a product / demo to ship ASAP' pile.
Self-driving cars strike me as the hardest, most edge-case-ridden, timescale-pressured project I can think of. If I was younger, I'd be trying to land a job, I think. Sounds like fun.