The rise in autonomous ride-hailing cars could see a 40% spike in CO2 emissions as consumers, tempted by greater convenience and lower costs, desert public transport. A new report from the World Economic Forum (WEF) has found that if self-driving vehicles are deployed on all major urban rail networks around the world, they would emit more than double the amount of
The rise in autonomous ride-hailing cars could see a 40% spike in CO2 emissions as consumers, tempted by greater convenience and lower costs, desert public transport. Campaign group Transport and Environment warned autonomous cars' ability to drive all day could potentially quadruple the current European fleet's total mileage and called for a ban on fossil fuel-powered self-driving cars.