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| Title |
Autonomous vehicles are cost-effective when used as taxis
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Injury Epidemiology, June 2018
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| DOI | 10.1186/s40621-018-0153-z |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Isaac G. Freedman, Ellen Kim, Peter A. Muennig |
| Abstract |
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) will radically re-shape the health and well-being of people in the United States in good ways and bad. We set out to estimate a reasonable time-to-adoption using cost-effectivenessmodels to estimate the point at which AVs become reasonably safe and affordable for widespread adoption. We used Waymo data (previously, Google Self-Driving Car Project) and a microsimulation model to explore projected costs and safety issues today and five years from today to get a sense of the speed of consumer adoption were AVs brought to the market. The adoption of AVs for private use was associated with an ICER of 1,396,110/QALY gained today, a figure that would decline to 173,890/QALY gained 5-years in the future. However, AV taxis are both less expensive and potentially already safer than human-piloted taxis. While AVs are not unlikely to be used a family vehicles any time soon, it would make economic sense to adopt them as taxis today. Legislation enhancing the benefits while mitigating the potential harmful health impacts of AV taxis is needed with some urgency. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 3 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 1 | 33% |
| United States | 1 | 33% |
| Sweden | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 2 | 67% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 46 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 46 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 10 | 22% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 15% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 13% |
| Researcher | 4 | 9% |
| Other | 6 | 13% |
| Unknown | 7 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering | 12 | 26% |
| Computer Science | 8 | 17% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 6 | 13% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 7% |
| Unspecified | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 7 | 15% |
| Unknown | 8 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 October 2018.
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