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Driverless cars are clearly the way of the future, but there's some things we still need answers for.
It's a theoretical question now, but it won't be in 15 years time... Can self-driving cars make ethical decisions?
If a driverless car had to make a decision between crashing the car into a tree, killing its passengers, or into a child running across the road, what would it do?
Tom Elliott spoke with David McCarthy from Mercedes-Benz who says that's a long way off.
"The car will detect the object and take immediate actions to slow and turn that car."
"We're not going to program it to make a choice..." - David told 3AW Drive.
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