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Asleep at the whell is God in control or not?

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On 14 February 2016 there was a car accident. Actually, there were thousands of car accidents , but only one made international news , had millions of people reading about it, newscasters commenting on it, and even politicians making statements about it. The car accident in question occurred on the corner of El Camino Real and Castro Street in Mountain View California when a Lexus collided with a bus. It wasn’t a particularly bad accident by any standard. The Lexus was going at 2mph and the bus at 15mph. The worst damage done was a minor dent in the car’s bumper. So why the media attention? It had to do with whose fault this little fender bender was. It wasn’t the bus driver’s fault. It wasn’t the car driver’s fault. And that’s because the car didn’t have a driver. The car was an autonomous vehicle, or experimental driverless car, taking its passenger to Google headquarters. Google has poured over a billion dollars into the development of driverless cars . These cars have drive