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Letter: Automated automobiles will break the law

Published 7 June 2017

From Nigel Brown, Wells, Somerset, UK

Bob Cory suggests that nobody will write code that breaks the law for a self-driving car (Letters, 20 May). I disagree. Given the prevalence of computer hacking, the Volkswagen emissions scandal and the hobby of tweaking engine management systems, it seems that the question is not whether self-driving cars will break the law, but when.

Issue no. 3129 published 10 June 2017

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