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Bellwether: Autopilot Off

NPR
Published May 20, 2019 at 3:04 PM CDT

In 2018, a woman in Tempe, Arizona became the first person in history to be struck and killed by a self-driving car. Was the person behind the wheel or the self-driving car to blame?

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