When the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing on Capitol Hill this month to assess America's readiness for the arrival of self-driving cars, it summoned a who's who of industry executives: Chris Urmson, director of Google's self-driving car project, plus executives from Delphi, General Motors and Lyft, all of which are racing to bring self-driving cars to market.
Then, as if to splash cold water on their ambitions, the committee called Missy Cummings, an engineering professor and human-factors expert at Duke University who argued self-driving cars are "absolutely not ready for widespread deployment."
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