Level One - Is Your Car Really Driving?

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Level on one is the bare minimum, level two is more advanced crews control. Level three is considered to be pretty dangerous. There's not like a clear line between when the car is driving itself and when the human needs to be driving. And then you got level four. These are cars that can operate with no human behind the wheel. Rever for level five is basically science fiction.

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.

This episode was produced by Jon Ehrens, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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