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The challenges of partially automated driving

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Car automation promises to free our hands from the steering wheel but might demand more from our minds.

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            Communications of the ACM  Volume 59, Issue 5
            May 2016
            121 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/2930840
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