The World Health Organization estimates that there are around 260,000 annual road fatalities in China and 1.25 million around the globe. Autonomous vehicles are on the path to eventually being far safer than human-driven vehicles, and widespread deployment of the technology will dramatically decrease these fatalities. It will also lead to huge increases in efficiency of transportation and logistics networks, gains that will echo throughout the entire economy. But alongside the lives saved and productivity gained, there will be other instances in which jobs or even lives are lost due to the
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