Self-driving trucks threaten one of America's top blue-collar jobs

Re:Self-driving trucks threaten one of America's top blue-co... by okket on Sunday September 25, 2016 @12:39PM (#12576039)

I guess it will more likely pan out like flying: You still need humans to steer the colossus through cities and other complicated terrains, to keep them running, for emergency situations, for the insurance company and, maybe, for the unions. But most of the time the truck will drive on autopilot.

Slowly humans will fade completely from the picture, but it will not be a hard cut. Also, we are far away from auto-fixing trucks. So at least the repair crews will stay for long while.

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Re:Self-driving trucks threaten one of America's top blue-co... by alpineidyll3 on Sunday September 25, 2016 @12:53PM (#12576099)

It will be a slow-motion economic calamity, similar to how internet sourcing of materials and sales has gutted the lower middle class. The generation in the out-automated job never retrains or productively re-enters the workforce. Instead they turn around and vote for people who want to flip over the economic card table.

Democratic capitalism has to get this isht figured out, or the next century is going to be unpleasant.

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