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What a 160-year-old theory about coal predicts about our self-driving future

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What a 160-year-old theory about coal predicts about our self-driving future

Enticing though they are, such arguments conceal a logical flaw. As a classic 19th-century theory known as a Jevons paradox explains, even if autonomous vehicles eventually work perfectly — an enormous “if” — they are likely to increase total emissions and crash deaths, simply because people will use them so much.

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