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Welcome back to Monday.
Today’s top story is from Kea Wilson, who discusses the killing of Renee Nicole Good through the frame of automobility: When do the powerful ignore traffic violence in the interest in keeping cars moving, or selectively decide that the threat of automotive violence is an acceptable pretext for other kinds of deadly force?
The year is 2036. Autonomous Vehicles are everywhere. But when one of them kills a pedestrian, a federal “cybermarshal” wonders if it was just an “accident” … or something sinister.
Of course walking and biking are emissions-free, but research increasingly shows replacing a gas car with an EV usually carries significant environmental benefits.