The Trans-Tasman travel corridor, popularly known as the Trans-Tasman bubble, is a proposed quarantine-free travel zone between Australia and New Zealand. The initiative is purely economic in nature. Its goal is to open up borders and restore some degree of bilateral travel, in an attempt to limit prospects of a pandemic-induced economic recession.

Although the full extent of COVID-19’s wreckage remains unknown, devastating effects on health, society, and the economy have already affected reproductive autonomy in the United States. Challenges in gaining access to care, resource scarcities, and economic barriers have nearly all aspects of reproductive health choices, exacerbating a situation that is already difficult for many. The ability to exercise reproductive autonomy within the context of intimate relationships, sex, and family formation is central to our lives and our dignity as human beings, and does not cease during a pandemic.

Currently, 93% of car accidents are caused by errors in user judgment or control.⁴ To prevent accidents from happening in the first place, manufacturers are implementing advanced driver assistance (ADA) systems to take control away from the driver. The features of these include collision sensors, automatic braking, cruise control, and lane-position maintenance systems.⁵ The next step of advanced driver assistance does not involve any driver input whatsoever––autonomous vehicles (AVs).