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To Get Ready for Robot Driving, Some Want to Reprogram Pedestrians

Researchers bemoan human unpredictability and back the kind of campaigns that helped Germany cut jaywalking fatalities.

Race To Build Self-Driving Cars Accelerates
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You’re crossing the street wrong.

That is essentially the argument some self-driving car boosters have fallen back on in the months after the first pedestrian death attributed to an autonomous vehicle and amid growing concerns that artificial intelligence capable of real-world driving is further away than many predicted just a few years ago.