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by ErnestedCode
2818 days ago
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I believe this will be the first iteration of autonomous truck driving. > Then, truckers could go to work 9-5 and be home for dinner with their families every night. You seem to indicate this will be good for the drivers, but it won't be. The bad news is you couldn't take all of the current drivers and consolidate them into "last mile" drivers. There will be A LOT more physical work involved since drivers will no longer be sitting and driving 99% of the time. And there will be fewer hours driven by humans, so it will truly be survival of the fittest. Old and less able-bodied drivers will be forced to retire or switch careers. It will probably be impossible for someone new to get into the industry and to be honest, it would be a poor career move to try to get into the industry at this point. The drivers that remain will continue to fight tooth and nail to block full autonomous driving, but every hour they spend fighting is an hour less that they will be earning money in a career that will eventually be extinct. It sucks that so many people will lose their livelihoods, but it really is inevitable. And big retail stores will die, too, unless they are automate the whole "last mile" delivery. Loading docks and warehouses will have to adapt or the retailers/shippers will die, too. |
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... Isn't that sort of the point? Should we be designing our society around people getting into an industry for its own sake? Bare minimum, for jobs that are going to go away or be depleted, it seems like pretty solid market economics (and I'm not into capitalism) that reduced demand for labor in a job should most affect the people least committed to that job.