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television show "Knight Rider."
• Now, three years after Google invented one, automated cars could be on their way to a freeway near you. In the U.S., California and other states are rewriting the rules of the road to make way for driverless cars. Just one problem: What happens to the millions of people who make a living driving cars and trucks -- jobs that always have seemed sheltered from the onslaught of technology?
• "All those jobs are going to disappear in the next 25 years," predicts Moshe Vardi, a computer scientist at Rice University in Houston. "Driving by people will look quaint; it will look like a horse and buggy."
• If automation can unseat bus drivers, urban deliverymen, long-haul truckers, even cabbies, is any job safe?
• Vardi poses an equally scary question: "Are we prepared for an economy in which 50 percent of people aren't working?"
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Education Department tells schools to find ways for disabled students to play sports
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Students with disabilities must be given a fair shot to play on a traditional sports team or have their own leagues, the Education Department says.
• Disabled students who want to play for their school could join traditional teams if officials can make "reasonable modifications" to accommodate them. If those adjustments would fundamentally alter a sport or give the student an advantage, the department is directing the school to create parallel athletic programs that have comparable standing to traditional programs.
• "Sports can provide invaluable lessons in discipline, selflessness, passion and courage, and this guidance will help schools ensure that students with disabilities have an equal opportunity to benefit from the life lessons they can learn on the playing field or on the court," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a statement announcing the new guidance Friday.
• The groundbreaking order is reminiscent of the Title IX expansion of athletic opportunities for girls and women four decades ago and could bring sweeping changes to school budgets and locker rooms for years to come.
• Activists cheered the changes.
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