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548. Why Is the U.S. So Good at Killing Pedestrians?

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The Cost of So-So Technologies

It takes brain power to think about what you're going to say. Oftentimes that voice assistant gets it wrong and does the wrong thing. Some of these activities take 20, 30, sometimes 40 seconds to fully complete. Autonomous travel isn't here yet, which means we are stuck with humans driving for now.

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