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http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-gm-super-cruise-driverless-car/

I like to drive cars, says Mark Reuss, product development chief at General Motors, so this is a little funny. Not funny-ha-ha, Reuss clarifies, but funny-odd. Hes sitting in the drivers seat, with his hands on his thighs and his feet on the floor of a big Cadillac thats driving itself around a banked oval. Reuss is at GMs 4,000-acre proving ground in rural Michigan, hidden from the public behind locked gates, tall trees, and security befitting a prison. The companys been debugging its cars here since 1924. Its a brilliant, sunny autumn afternoona nice day for being driven. Dozens...