As a recent Seattle Magazine article describes, drivers in Kirkland “may have noticed a Lexus RX suburban utility vehicle with a black rooftop dome traversing local streets” that is unlike other cars, because while it has someone sitting in the driver’s seat, their hands are far from the wheel. That’s because Kirkland is one of three U.S. cities that is currently allowing companies to test self-driving cars, “to see if hundreds of split-second decisions instinctively made by a human driver can be replicated by an onboard system of sensors and computers.”
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