Transportation is a huge barrier for people with physical and developmental disabilities. If reliable, affordable self-driving cars were widely available, around 9.2 million more Americans would join the workforce, researchers found.
Only 21% of Americans with disabilities participated in the labor force in 2021, compared to 67% of those without disabilities.
And the unemployment rate for people with disabilities was 10% that year — twice that of able-bodied people.The study, by the National Disability Institute, claims to be the first to look at AVs' potential macroeconomic impact. If reliable, affordable self-driving cars were widely available, around 9.2 million more Americans would join the workforce, the researchers found.The federal government would see $120.7 billion in benefits, including $93 billion in additional tax revenues and a $28 billion reduction in spending on social safety net programs.
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