Don’t Bother Honking: The Robot Driver Can’t Hear You

Technocrats envision a scientifically engineered society with only self-driving, electric vehicles on the road, but the Utopia could quickly turn into Dystopia. Robots don’t behave like humans, and vice versa. ⁃ TN EditorAs auto accidents go, it wasn’t much: twelve minutes before noon on a cool June day, a Chevrolet Bolt was rear ended as it crawled from a stop light in downtown San Francisco.
What made this fender bender noteworthy was the Bolt’s driver: a