BMW Sees Car’s Missing Moral Compass Delaying Self-Driving Era

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Would you trust your 7-Series to choose between hitting a child and crashing into another car? BMW AG said open moral questions like these will mean napping or reading behind the wheel is many years away.

“Fully-automated driving is in my view still a long way off,” Ian Robertson, the Munich-based company’s head of sales, said Thursday in an interview. “The technology will be held back by the ultimate moral question on who’s responsible.”