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		</div><p>Self-driving “robocab” taxis are the future if we want transport that will benefit the environment AND our purses.</p>
<p>The autonomous cars could deliver huge environmental and economic benefits by running more efficiently than privately operated vehicles, a study has shown.</p>
<p><b>Environmental benefits:</b></p>
<p>Scientists found that an electric self-driving taxi in 2030 would generate greenhouse gas emissions 90% per mile (1.6 km) lower than a privately operated petrol-powered car.</p>
<p>Its contribution to greenhouse gases would also be up to 82% lower than that of a hybrid vehicle.</p>
<p>Almost half of the savings were due to “right sizing” – ensuring that the taxi varies in size according to how many passengers it is carrying.</p>
<p>Economic benefits:</p>
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<p>By 2030, autonomous taxis could be far cheaper to operate than traditional taxis, said the researchers, whose findings appear in the journal Nature Climate Change.</p>
<p>If driven only 12,000 miles (19,300 km) per year, electric vehicles were expected to be more expensive than owning and operating petrol-driven cars.</p>
<p>But if a vehicle was driven 40,000 to 70,000 miles (64,300 to 112,600 km) a year – not unusual for a taxi – power delivered by a hydrogen fuel cell or electric battery is the most cost-effective option.</p>
<p>Taking into account the cost of autonomous technology, currently estimated to add as much as 150,000 dollars (£96,200) to the cost of a vehicle, the dramatic savings were a result of greater energy efficiency and doing away with the human operator.</p>
<p><b>What the scientists say:</b></p>
<p>Lead scientist Dr Jeff Greenblatt, from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, US, said: “When we first started looking at autonomous vehicles, we found that, of all the variables we could consider, the use of autonomous vehicles as part of a shared transit system seemed to be the biggest lever that pointed to lower energy use per mile.”</p>
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