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Later in the story:

"The Cruise car had tried to change lanes, then abruptly aborted the lane change when the space to make the change disappeared"

This sounds a lot like a Google crash in Mountain View awhile back.

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Yeah I've been around enough self driving cars to know that they behave a little weirdly sometimes, in a way you'd never expect a human to. We can keep throwing humans under the bus on some technicality every time this happens because we're engineers and beep boop everything is black and white. period. But in reality there's a social aspect to driving with a lot of unwritten rules that people do not seem to be worrying about as much as they should.

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