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This system is for highway traffic, there's no traffic lights. The maximum number of vehicles in a road train is 5. Obviously it has all kinds of failure recovery systems and in fact some top-end BMWs can already safely pull over to the side of the road if the driver suddenly has a heart attack or is otherwise incapacitated.

  > safely pull over to the side of the road
I hope it can detect when the 'side of the road' is the edge of a cliff with no barrier.

Er... why wouldn't it?

Because it was only tested on highways/roads in flat areas, and not in the mountains/hills?

And you think all of the engineers at BMW would never consider that particular possibility?

What the fuck.

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