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Why the feds are investigating Tesla's Autopilot and what that means for the future of self-driving cars

  • Written by Hayder Radha, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University
imageTesla's Autopilot enables hands-free driving, but it's not meant to allow drivers to take their eyes off the road.Marcus Zacher/Flickr, CC BY-NC

It’s hard to miss the flashing lights of fire engines, ambulances and police cars ahead of you as you’re driving down the road. But in at least 11 cases in the past three and a half years,...

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