Flutterby™! : Self-driving cars & compute energy costs

As long as we under-price energy externalities, we're gonna have this problem: MIT study finds huge carbon cost to self-driving cars

The widespread adoption of self-driving cars will create a major bump in carbon emissions without changes to their design, a study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found.<span id="more-1886632"></span>

The study found that with a mass global takeup of autonomous vehicles, the powerful onboard computers needed to run them could generate as many greenhouse gas emissions as all the data centres in operation today.

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