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Driverless cars are already here but the roads aren't ready for them

  • Written by Mark Wilson, Professor and Program Director, Urban & Regional Planning, School of Planning, Design and Construction, Michigan State University
Jason Eichenholz, co-founder and chief technology officer of driverless vehicle industry startup Luminar TechnologiesAP Photo/Ben Margot

The recent deaths of a woman struck by a car Uber was testing in driverless mode and of a man whose Tesla Model X crashed when his hands were off the steering wheel because he was letting the car do some of the...

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