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What most people do not know is that Israel had already developed a self-driving car a number of years ago.  The car was able to understand and respond to verbal commands.  If you wanted the car to go to the right, all you had to do was say “Yemina”, and it would turn right.  To go to the left, you merely said, “smola”.  Since some of the engineers who worked on the car were religious Jews, they programmed it so that in order to activate the car you said, “Baruch HaShem” which of course means, “thank God.”  And it would go forward.  And to stop it, you said, the same thing, only in Yiddish, “Gottza Danken.”  Everything was going pretty well on the initial test run until the driver got to a treacherous cliff.  As the car was going downhill it began to speed out of control and the driver panicked.  He could not remember the Yiddish command to get the car to stop.  He yelled out every Yiddish word he knew, and even a few curse word...