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Self-driving cars and humans face inevitable collisions

  • Written by Peter Hancock, Professor of Psychology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, University of Central Florida
Self-driving cars and human-driven vehicles are bound to collide as the technology improves.Tempe Police Department via AP

In 1938, when there were just about one-tenth the number of cars on U.S. roadways as there are today, a brilliant psychologist and a pragmatic engineer joined forces to write one of the most influential works ever published on...

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