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Finding trust and understanding in autonomous technologies

  • Written by David Danks, Professor of Philosophy and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

In 2016, self-driving cars went mainstream. Uber’s autonomous vehicles became ubiquitous in neighborhoods where I live in Pittsburgh, and briefly in San Francisco. The U.S. Department of Transportation issued new regulatory guidance for them. Countless papers and columns discussed how self-driving cars shouldsolveethical quandaries when...

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