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Does the recent Houston incident show 'humans aren't ready for self-driving vehicles'?

For some time now, we have been hearing more and more about self-driving vehicles - how much safer the roads will be. The basic idea is that the 'computer' will evaluate all situations and make the most logical decision which is primarily to avoid an accident. We already have adaptive cruise control systems to keep vehicles space, we already have blind spot monitoring, we have systems to keep a vehicle in a lane, and cameras so we can see around us to avoid an accident. So if we have so much technology that under the right circumstances a vehicle can drive own it's own, why do we have issues?…

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