
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/
Is anyone really surprised by this?
It was inevitable.
The whole idea sounded like something in The Onion.