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Jul 2017
31m 43s

Preparing a city for self-driving cars w...

SCOTT HANSELMAN
About this episode
Leslie Caceda is a Transportation Technologist at the Atlanta Regional Commission. In this episode she talks to Scott about the design and ethics of self-driving cars. What will this revolution mean to car ownership? To people who were otherwise unable to travel? What about the ethics of how a self-driving car decides to drive...and stop? 
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