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New traffic fatality data underscore need for autonomous vehicle legislation
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Caleb Watney
Oct 17, 2017
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Automation & Worker Displacement, Finance and Trade, Technology and Innovation, Transportation
originally published in
Economics21
In the long-run, it is possible that fully autonomous vehicles could displace some share of these occupations. However, as R Street’s Caleb Watney has written, it is more likely that in the near future the developments in autonomous vehicles will be more akin to driver assistance technology, which would complement human truck drivers and make trucks much safer.
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