Autonomous taxis could greatly reduce greenhouse-gas emissions of US light-duty vehicles

Jeffery B. Greenblatt () and Samveg Saxena
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Jeffery B. Greenblatt: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Samveg Saxena: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Nature Climate Change, 2015, vol. 5, issue 9, 860-863

Abstract: Autonomous vehicles move passengers without human intervention. Modelling suggests that autonomous taxis could reduce transport emissions by 87–94% per mile in 2030 and save approximately 7 billion barrels of oil.

Date: 2015
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