What Austin Vernon thinks about self-driving cars

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Engineer and investor who writes quantitative posts about how physical industries actually work — chemical plants, geothermal drilling, shipyards, thermal storage and the economics of low-volume manufacturing — at austinvernon.site.

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   Our readingOnce a vehicle no longer has to survive a crash with a human driver, it can be made ten times lighter without losing speed or interior space.

   Their wordsIt should be possible to decrease the weight of a car by 10x without sacrificing speed or internal volume.

   ↗Human Driving Increases Transportation Cost 10xaustinvernon.site 2nd of 3 in this piece