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"When visibility is poor, people have car accidents because they can't see what's ahead of them, right? Actually, the Mandelbaum Effect implies that sometimes people have accidents because they aren't even looking for what's ahead of them. [...] Although it's possible to test for it, no one quite knows how to compensate for the effect yet."
I may be becoming a bit too obsessed with self-driving cars, but this seems like one more strong argument for them.
Probably other people are insufficiently obsessed with self-driving cars.
Most of the people who move we technology forward are obsessed.