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Bonnie and Clyde's getaway car has hidden lessons for cops in the self-driving vehicle era

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A little more than a month later, on April 29, 1934, while Ruth was helping care for her sister's sick child, someone stole the prized automobile right out of the Warren's driveway. When it was returned that August by a federal court, the couple found their car in disarray. The car thieves--a "swarthy" man and "girl of slight stature," as she described them to the papers--had put 7,500 miles on the odometer in just 26 days of driving. Stranger still, the once-pristine vehicle was riddled with bullet holes and covered in blood. But what else would you expect from the last car stolen by Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow?