Chapter

The Importance of Safety in Driverless Cars
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Externalities caused by aggressive and drunk driving can be reduced with the help of driverless cars. And to ensure their safety, it is important to demand that driverless cars be significantly safer than human-driven cars to avoid heterogeneity in current safety attributes of drivers in the population.

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In this podcast, the speaker argues that the implementation of driverless cars has the potential to significantly reduce the externalities imposed on society by human-driven cars, such as drunk driving and aggressive driving.
01:35 - 06:39 (05:04)
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Driverless Cars
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In this podcast, the speaker argues that the implementation of driverless cars has the potential to significantly reduce the externalities imposed on society by human-driven cars, such as drunk driving and aggressive driving. This will lead to a demand for highly safe driverless cars.

Chapter
The Importance of Safety in Driverless Cars
Episode
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Podcast
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