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Driverless vehicles, otherwise known as autonomous, automated or self-driving cars, are no longer science fiction. The technology is here. Google is at the 1) ______ in testing driverless cars. Its self-driving car project 2) ______ from the Darpa Grand Challenges for robotic vehicles in the early 2000s. It has incorporated the latest technological 3) ______ into its design at every phase ever since. A driverless car is a vehicle that is capable of sensing its environment and navigating without human 4) ______. Many tech companies are now homing in on 5) ______ intelligence for the capability. A driverless car needs to have sensors to understand the world around it and a brain that collects, 6) ______ and chooses specific actions, such as 7) ______ speed, based on information gathered. Assuming the various autonomous driving features are safer than relying on driver experience and 8) ______, automobile insurance costs will decline. But the sensors, cameras and complex software providing autonomous driving are far more expensive to replace and repair. Also, these autonomous driving features 9) ______ inside vehicles create new risks. What if the Internet shuts down or hackers attack traffic control systems? Who then pays the damages – the owner, or the car producer? Last year a European research project, RoboLaw, was created to 10) ______ such a legal challenge and will deliver its guidelines on regulations to the European Commission in the spring. One question is whether it's time to deal with the issue without holding companies back from developing the technology.
Who is an "adult"? Many would 1) ______ having completed schooling, working steadily, living 2) ______ of one's parents, and having children as the markers of adulthood, traditionally achieved between the late teens and the early thirties. However, compared with their parents' generation, young people today are taking longer to complete their schooling, to settle into steady employment, to establish their own households, to get married, and to fulfil the 3) ______ to raise children. The psychologist Jeffrey Arnett describes the phase of life for those now between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five as a period of relative independence from social roles and expectations. As such, 4) ______ adulthood provides some younger people, especially those who have access to parental resources and supports into their twenties, with new opportunities for exploring their 5) ______, particularly in the areas of work, love, and worldviews. Those who do not have resources, however, 6) ______ problems. Many observers have thought about the factors that have made the transition from 7) ______ to adulthood more complex and variable. Some believe that industrialization, improved health, and increased life expectancies have changed the 8) ______ life sequences of the early twentieth century. Others think that the rising cost of housing in some parts of the country explains why young people are increasingly likely to live with their parents. Still others suggest that because this generation's parents has fewer children, they are able to provide support that 9) ______ the needs of each child, allowing their children to prolong their dependence and lengthening the time it takes them to complete their education and find 10) ______ employment and independent living arrangements.
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