Self-Driving Cars

Close Read Passage, 143 words, Pro/Con (nonfiction), Compare and Contrast, Level P (Grade 2), Lexile 600L

By the time current elementary students get their licenses to drive, cars might look very different than they do today. In fact, they might not even need licenses! Self-driving cars, cars driven by computers, might soon outnumber cars driven by people. For now, backup drivers ride in all self-driving cars in case something goes wrong with the computers.

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