Elon Musk swears Tesla's self-driving cars are safe. So why is the government recalling them?
Cars are computers now, but the government hasn’t caught up.
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Cars are computers now, but the government hasn’t caught up.
Toru Hanai/Bloomberg via Getty Images This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. Tesla’s Autopilot software, an advanced driver assistance feature, is in the news again. And not in a good way. Over the weekend, a short video of a person sitting in the back seat of a driverless Tesla operating on public roads in California caught the internet’s attention. The six-second video shows a man staring out the window from the back of the Tesla that’s driving down the road. There’s nobody in the driv...