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PLUS: In defense of polemicists like Sarah Jeong, how testing today's cars will help our autonomous future, and why the internet can't replace an education. [View this email in your browser]( [logo]( [[WIRED Magazine]8.8.18]( Ideas Polemicists Like Sarah Jeong Make Enemies. Don't Fire Them By Virginia Heffernan If you write polemics, you make enemies; you lose friends; you get trolled. But it’s the job. Testing, 1, 2, 3 Semiautonomous Cars Have Flaws. That's Why They Need Tests By Jack Stewart The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety tested features in cars from Tesla, BMW, Mercedes, and Volvo and found they all had issues. Here’s where safety rankings would come in handy. Education You Can Learn Everything Online Except for the Things You Can't By Rhett Allain College is like a chocolate chip cookie, and courses—online or not—are the chocolate chips. AR Inside Magic Leap’s Rebirth as a Company With Real Products By Jessi Hempel Over the last few years, Magic Leap's supporters have grown skeptical of the company's mythical augmented-reality product. Now that it has released a headset, the Magic Leap One Creator Edition, can it make naysayers care? [WIRED Magazine Subscription] Get Wired Unlimited access to an ad-free WIRED.com + a free YubiKey. Subscribe now Product Review Lenovo Proves Google Assistant Is Ready to Show Off By Jeffrey Van Camp Google Assistant finally gets a screen, making it an ideal kitchen companion. Shortcuts When Bots Teach Themselves to Cheat By Tom Simonite Even with logical parameters, AI programs can develop shortcuts and workarounds that humans didn’t think to deem off-­limits. Ideas The Genetics (and Ethics) of Making Humans Fit for Mars By Jason Pontin We could make people less stinky, more resistant to radiation, even less dependent on food and oxygen. But would the new creature be human? HardWIRED Anki’s New Home Robot Sure Is Cute. But Can It Survive? By Matt Simon It’s charming, it’s (relatively) smart, and it’s mobile. The question is: Can Vector succeed where other home robots have failed? Photo Gallery The Tight-Lipped Drivers Steering Tokyo's Taxis By Laura Mallonee Oleg Tolstoy photographed the men and women who suit up to ferry passengers around Shibuya and Shinjuku. [WIRED Magazine]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Pinterest]( [Youtube]( [Instagram]( This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, [wired@newsletters.wired.com]( to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Copyright © Condé Nast 2018. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.