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    Mar 30, 2018 5 minutes

    Driverless Future

    I just read Mark Rechtin’s column in the March 2018 issue (“Why the autonomous-car society is still decades away”). Under the “Ethics” paragraph, I have a possible solution to the autonomous car theoretical situation: “to run over children mingling around their stalled bus in the middle of a blind corner, or to drive off the adjacent cliff.” I think if you can build an autonomous car, you can surely have it slow down and safely stop within the forward distance it can see ahead. I do this on my own all the time.

    CHARLIE BOHNERT

    FENTON, MISSOURI

    Mark was being a bit hyperbolic, but you seem to agree that one of the challenges in engineering an autonomous car is predicting the unpredictable, just like

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