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You're going to ride along with one self-driving car for the next few minutes. The car will cruise, merge, brake, and pull a few other moves — and you'll learn how to read every one of those moves off a v-t graph.

Lesson objective
By the end, given any v-t graph of a moving object, you will be able to interpret its acceleration — both sign and magnitude — directly from the shape of the line.
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