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Old 02-20-2012, 10:08 PM   #14 (permalink)
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The closest I have come to being killed on a highway in the last 5 years is 3 almost head on collisions on 2 lane roads where the other driver was on some kind of mobile device and swerved over onto my lane, more than 50% of my lane, without any real escape route due to the ditch a foot off my side of the road.

The more techy stuff they do to cars to allow less attention by drivers, the less attention the same drivers will pay to what is going on around them. While you may be able to teach a car to drive itself, I doubt you will teach a car to anticipate potential events and preempt them.

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