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

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A Jevons paradox explains why efficiency improvements can backfire and cause the opposite outcome from what was intended.

In the 1800s , coal was the sine qua non of economic development, essential for everything from heating to transport to manufacturing.

Today , greater efficiency in deploying a resource causes demand for that resource to skyrocket, negating an expected decline in total usage.

The Jevons paradox has become a bedrock principle of environmental economics.

It is reasonable to expect AVs’ reliability and efficiency to improve over time.

But it is impossible to know how safe and energy-efficient their products could eventually become.

The societal impact of self-driving cars looks even worse when considering second -order effects related to land use.

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