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Even self-driving cars need driver education

  • Written by Johanna Zmud, Senior Research Scientist, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Texas A&M University
Just like teenagers, robot drivers need lots of practice.iurii/Shutterstock.com

What do self-driving cars and teenage drivers have in common?

Experience. Or, more accurately, a lack of experience.

Teenage drivers – novice drivers of any age, actually – begin with little knowledge of how to actually operate a car’s controls, and how...

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