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It's pedal to the metal for driverless cars

  • Written by William Messner, John R. Beaver Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University
imageAn NVIDIA-powered Audi needs no driver.AP Photo/John Locher

When a May 2016 crash killed the person operating a Tesla Model S driving in Autopilot mode, advocates of autonomous vehicles feared a slowdown in development of self-driving cars.

Instead the opposite has occurred. In August, Ford publicly committed to field self-driving cars by 2021. In...

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