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Who woulda thunk it: Tesla crash highlights real problem behind self-driving cars

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By Douglas Rushkoff

Updated 8:06 PM ET, Fri July 1, 2016

CNN)We think of automobiles as American as baseball, apple pie, and hotdogs – or at least that’s what the car advertisers have gotten us to believe.

But as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s investigation into a fatal self-driving car accident should remind us, the automobile’s centrality to the American way of life was an expensive and political battle with nearly uncountable human casualties.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/01/opinions/tesla-self-driving-car-fatality-rushkoff/