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The first state to pass a law legalizing self-driving cars operating on public roads was Nevada in June 2011 – long before such vehicles were operating on public roads. This was three years before the introduction of Tesla’s Autopilot, five years before Waymo spun out of the Google self-driving car project, and seven years before the first commercial robotaxi …
Residents in the flood-stricken Victorian town of Echuca are being warned waters will peak near 94.9 metres tonight and into tomorrow, nearing a mark not…
Middle schoolers, likely blocked from other apps and social networks, apparently turned the Spotify comment section under an episode of NPR’s Wild Card into an…
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