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Not clear yet what actually happened but a car that can drive itself autonomously was involved in a crash, which may be the first such accident of its kind.  

But the presence of the police officers in the garage that Friday afternoon in July was anything but ordinary: They were directed to the parking structure by a computer program that had predicted that car burglaries were especially likely there that day. The program is part of an unusual experiment by the Santa Cruz Police Department in predictive policing - deploying officers in places where crimes are likely to occur in the future.

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Good background and references on Nevada's new law allowing autonomous vehicles.