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Humans will also adapt. If there are local driving quirks in an area that the automated cars don't follow, after watching the automated cars fail to follow them a few times, people will account for the unexpected behavior.

This is already an issue humans solve in the context of tourists driving through town, who aren't accustom to local rules like "First driver at an intersection gets to make a left on green instead of yielding to the column of oncoming straight traffic."




I utterly despise that local rule, even as someone who grew up with it.


If you hate that one, I hope you've never encountered the one that appears to operate around the D.C. beltway / suburb area:

Signalling intent to change lanes indicates that you are weak; people will actively cut you off.


There can be only one!..person on time to work and it's going to be me




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