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For a driverless car, software update may remedy a recall

Published Sun, Sep 25, 2016 · 09:50 PM

Washington

ABOUT 34 million US drivers have gotten bad news in the mail: their car has been recalled because the airbags might explode. Only a small fraction of them have responded to that or to a massive federal campaign begging them to head down to the dealer for repairs.

In the decades to come, however, many car recalls may take no more than the push of a computer button.

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