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Ford squashes the bug problem plaguing autonomous cars

Self-driving cars are supposed to change the way we get around, but before they can do that, engineers have to solve a lot of problems related to them. Like what to do about bugs — the insect kind, not glitches. For human drivers, a bug-splattered vehicle is pretty inconsequential. But autonomous cars rely on an array of sensors to “see” their environment, and those sensors need to be kept clean of insects. So Ford came up with a way to bug-proof its cars’ sensors.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/ford-found-a-way-to-keep-bugs-off-autonomous-car-sensors/

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