Re:The threat of technological unemployment
by BookmarkSaver on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @02:14PM
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I agree that it won't happen overnight, but I would guess that with really popular models it will be very cost effective to retrofit the trucks with an automated system.
I think it comes down to what you mean by "soon". I would be surprised if in 10 years a huge number of trucking jobs hadn't already been replaced, and in 20 years they will almost gone outside of a few niches.
I think it comes down to what you mean by "soon". I would be surprised if in 10 years a huge number of trucking jobs hadn't already been replaced, and in 20 years they will almost gone outside of a few niches.