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Tesla crash could stall public acceptance of driverless cars

By Dee-Ann Durbin, Associated Press

How will driverless cars make life-or-death decisions?

In a future when cars no longer need humans to drive, decisions about who might live or die in a crash are already being made — by the so-called “moral codes” preprogrammed into a car's neurology.

By Kamala Kelkar

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