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This year will mark another key milestone in self-driving technology. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is widely expected to announce standards and mandates for car-borne beacons that will broadcast location information to other vehicles on the road. The beacons will warn drivers when a collision seems imminent—when the car ahead breaks hard, for example, or another vehicle swerves erratically into traffic. Automakers may then use this information to take the next step: program automated responses.

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That’s all fine but, will I be able to do this? 

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The Hoff!

(That’s how the actor is known in Germany, where he is still quite popular, even though, as his last name might suggest he is not of German descent -that’s what he claims anyway according to his autobiography, but again, you never know-).