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Mercedes answers autonomous car moral dilemma: Yeah, we'll just run over pedestrians

Doctor Syntax Silver badge

From TFA: "in many cases the lives being saved are the ones who put the fast metal box in the precarious situation in the first place."

If the car is autonomous and is in a precarious situation it wouldn't be the occupants who put it there, it would be the designers - and they won't be there.

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