Autonomous vehicles will be safer, not perfect - Toyota r&d leader: Temper expectations

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LAS VEGAS - Gill Pratt has heard the "what-if" warnings from critics of autonomous cars. To avert a crash that would be fatal to the driver only, what if the only option is for the car to swerve into a crowd, potentially killing many people? Skeptics say programming such split-second ethical decisions into a driving machine is impossible. But Pratt, head of the recently formed Toyota Research Institute, says it s a waste to even talk about such scenarios.