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Driverless Future

I just read Mark Rechtin’s column in the March 2018 issue (“Why the autonomous-car society is still decades away”). Under the “Ethics” paragraph, I have a possible solution to the autonomous car theoretical situation: “to run over children mingling around their stalled bus in the middle of a blind corner, or to drive off the adjacent cliff.” I think if you can build an autonomous car, you can surely have it slow down and safely stop within the forward distance it can see ahead. I do this on my own all the time.

CHARLIE BOHNERT

FENTON, MISSOURI

Mark was being a bit hyperbolic, but you seem to agree that one of the challenges in engineering an autonomous car is predicting the unpredictable, just like