Driverless cars: Who should die in a crash?

If forced to choose, who should a self-driving car kill in an unavoidable crash?

Should the passengers in the vehicle be sacrificed to save pedestrians? Or should a pedestrian be killed to save a family of four in the vehicle?

To get closer to an answer - if that were ever possible - researchers from the MIT Media Lab have analysed more than 40 million responses to an experiment they launched in 2014.

Their Moral Machine has revealed how attitudes differ across the world.  read more »

Mercedes faces federal probe over recall-notice practices

Company “omitted critical information about the problem for which a recall decision was made"

Mercedes-Benz USA is under investigation by U.S. safety regulators who say the luxury-auto maker may be taking too long to send safety recall notices to car owners and inform the government.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told the unit of Germany’s Daimler AG that it found numerous instances in which owners of recalled cars weren’t notified within the federally mandated 60-day window. read more »