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Self-Driving Car Runs Down Mother Duck Taking Care of Her Eggs, Flees Scene

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Self-Driving Car Runs Down Mother Duck Taking Care of Her Eggs, Flees Scene
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It’s safe to say that no one at the autonomous vehicle startup Avride will be using any omelette-related idioms about the necessity of sacrifice anytime soon.



In Austin, Texas, where the company is based and tests its self-driving tech, one of its autonomous cars ran over and killed a mother duck that had wandered away from her nearby nest of eggs — and drove off without stopping.



As KXAN reported, the hit-and-run was first flagged by a resident in a Facebook group for the Mueller La

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