Another possible impact of self-driving cars: organ shortages
I wasn’t going to do it, I wrote this and spiked it, but there is so much coverage of this story that I have to do it.
There are many worries about the changes wrought by self-driving cars, or autonomous vehicles (AVs) but here is one that nobody thought of before: it might seriously reduce the number of organs available for transplant. Ian Adams and Anne Hobson write in Slate.
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