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Sep 2022
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Author Patrick McGinty keeps self-drivin...

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McGinty, an English professor at Slippery Rock University, recently wrote his debut novel, “Test Drive,” about an autonomous-vehicle safety driver in Pittsburgh. He discusses the book and explores the muddled language so often used to describe self-driving tech. 
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