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modeless on Dec 8, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Unintended Effects of Driverless Cars

The energy used to make a car is dwarfed by the energy it uses on the road over its lifetime.

loboman on Dec 8, 2011 [–]

That's one car. What about the 10 cars this car is representing, if it's right that 10 people share the same car? (a la zipcar).

It would be good to get the data about energy consumption for car building, to answer this.

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