When computer scientist Christian Berger’s team sought to get its project about self-driving vehicle algorithms on the road, it faced a daunting obstacle. The scientists, at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, found an overwhelming number of papers on the topic — more than 10,000 — in a systematic literature review. Investigating them properly would have taken a year, Berger says.

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