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Old 07-05-2016, 10:56 AM   #32 (permalink)
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Tesla and Google Take Different Roads to Self-Driving Car

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/05/bu...iving-car.html

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But Google decided to play down the vigilant-human approach after an experiment in 2013, when the company let some of its employees sit behind the wheel of the self-driving cars on their daily commutes.

Engineers using onboard video cameras to remotely monitor the results were alarmed by what they observed — a range of distracted-driving behavior that included falling asleep.
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