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Many Americans are reluctant to embrace self-driving vehicle technology, recent survey results suggest.
Fifty-four percent of respondents to the Northeastern University/Gallup survey said they are unlikely to use fully self-driving cars, and 59 percent say they would be uncomfortable riding in the vehicles on a daily basis. Additionally, 62 percent say they would not be comfortable sharing the road with self-driving trucks.
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NPR
The opioid epidemic has cost the U.S. more than a trillion dollars since 2001, according to a new study, and may exceed another $500 billion over the next three years.
The report by Altarum, a nonprofit group that studies the health economy, examined CDC mortality data through June of last year. The greatest financial cost of the opioid epidemic, according to the report, is in lost earnings and productivity losses to employers.
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Friday’s magnitude 7.2 earthquake in the Mexican state of Oaxaca was another opportunity to demonstrate the benefits of an earthquake early-warning system, which in some seismic events, can send an alert ahead to cities before damaging waves can reach them.
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Government Technology
Cybersecurity companies San Antonio, Texas, gave an inside look Tuesday into what companies can and can’t do when they get hacked, and their perspective on what the government should be doing to support businesses when they get attacked.
Companies around the world last year scrambled to respond to devastating ransomware and other high-profile hacks.
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Future Structure
Bexar County Commissioner Kevin Wolff believes that a meeting he had last month in Washington with federal transportation officials could lead to construction of lanes for driverless automated vehicles on the Austin-San Antonio section of Interstate 35.
"This is the first proposal of its kind in the nation that I'm aware of," Wolff said. "And when the feds heard about it, they told me, 'This is just the kind of proposal we want to fund.'"
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The Associated Press via KCRA-TV
A wind-driven wildfire in rural central California threatened hundreds of buildings Monday, including a historic railroad station, but officials said they made some gains after the flames exploded in size.
The blaze scorched 3½ square miles of chaparral bush and shrub oak in the small town of Bishop on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada that is popular for hiking, fishing, climbing and hunting.
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By Lucy Wallwork
 Planning our cities is a fundamentally future-oriented endeavor. To work out which train lines, apartment blocks and zoning policies to put in place today, we need to do our best to anticipate what the consequences will be for the future. But our predictions of the future, based on grand theories, have frequently let us down. Now, as computing power has grown exponentially since the 1990s, we now have an alternative.
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Emergency Management
Planning a crisis response and reporting odd behaviors are key to preventing a crisis, according to crisis emergency coordinators and educators.
Jeb Lacey, of Victoria, president of RS Network Consulting, a crisis and emergency management company, said safety in any public places can present challenges from a safety and security standpoint. RS Network Consulting performs crisis management services for governments, school districts, universities and private-sector entities.
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Property Casualty 360
How can large carriers better track their compliance?
Most well-known large insurance companies have been using some form or mix of homegrown systems to track onboarding of their agents, which would require a lot of manual tracking by using Excel, Access, other apps, or different types of internal record keeping.
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