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Happy Tuesday. We have some great analysis up on the website today (and, lucky for you, in this very newsletter). Read about the real beneficiaries of Trump’s ‘birthrate’ funding scheme for the DOT, the light electric vehicles that could help wean America off cars, and more below.
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.