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    "headline": "Crash Composition Offers a Mileage-Free Comparison",
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    "dek": "A harmonized study compares the mix—not the rate—of automated-driving crashes with human baselines and finds two differences robust to its reporting assumptions.",
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    "body_text": "Most automated-driving operators do not publish a usable exposure denominator, so this study avoids crash-rate claims and asks whether the composition of crash types differs. It harmonizes 2,450 NHTSA Standing General Order incidents, with 828 inside the 2021–2024 human-comparator window, and uses a schema-constrained language model to map narratives into the federal CRSS taxonomy. Turn-across-path and single-vehicle crashes were under-represented among automated-driving crashes under every tested reportability, towing, weighting and driverless definition. The author also flags operator-specific driverless coding, fleet-recovery effects on towing and an occupancy confound. Because exposure is absent, the analysis cannot establish whether automated systems crash more or less often overall.",
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