The roads of the future may be greener and faster to build.

According to the World Health Organization, in 2015, there were an estimated 10.4 million new tuberculosis (TB) cases worldwide. Existing TB drug treatments require patients to take up to 20 tablets a day, but a new treatment involves taking just three drugs per day.

Elon Musk has predicted that, within the next ten years, all new cars will be autonomous, self-driving vehicles. If this bold prediction is true, we could be facing a serious shift towards safer roadways much sooner than most people expected.

Economics expert Brad Voracek thinks proponents of basic income and job guarantee programs should be supporting either option or even pushing for a combination of both. With automation poised to replace up to 47% of jobs in the U.S. alone, enacting either policy would be better than doing nothing and letting unemployment sweep our society.