A woman has died after being struck by a self driving uber car in tempe, arizona. To date, the first and only person that was killed by an actual self driving car. The cars themselves are safer than they've ever been thanks to advance driver system technology. But at the same time, thats make them any less dangerous to the people that are outside the vehicle. In a minute, we had to the most danger road for pedestrians in these united states. Ita explain to day's episode is sponsored by clickup. What would you do if you had one extra day a week? You want to help us produce an episode of stay explained? No, you could do some
The data is in on autonomous cars: They are crashing, but they're still doing a lot better than regular cars driven by humans. The Verge’s Andrew Hawkins and Vox’s Marin Cogan take the wheel.
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