Self-Driving Cars Should Accommodate People, Not the Other Way Around

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By Stephen MillerJul 25, 2017, 3:16 pm168 pts
A segment that aired yesterday on NPR’s Morning Edition comes off as posing a reasonable solution to the technical challenges of making self-driving cars safe around cyclists. But beneath the techno-optimism, there’s a dystopian vision in which being wired up is the only way for people walking or biking to…

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