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This week’s fatal crash involving a self-driving Uber SUV in Arizona drew attention to a new employment category that barely existed a few years ago: the autonomous vehicle safety driver. In Arizona alone, more than 600 autonomous vehicles are being …

The tragedy of the first pedestrian killed by an autonomous vehicle points to a potential vulnerability with the nascent technology now being tested on the open roads: While robo-cars, powered by sophisticated sensors and cameras, can reliably see their surroundings, …