Hard To Celebrate 50 Years When You’re Laying Off Drivers

Oh no... yet people still believe that "it won't happen in our lifetime". Automation is having a deleterious effect on several industries.
Thank you for sharing this article @mjd4277

 

This crap is coming so fast and nobody has any clue what to do about it. They’re not even talking about it. Forklift drivers and most warehouse workers got a couple of years left. OTR drivers we still got some time. But it isn’t unlimited. It’s going to get real, real quick out there.
I keep up on all the latest with AI, automation, etc and this is something we really should all be discussing. For the record, I don’t like it. None of it. But it’s happening, like it or not.

they say we’ll get to a point where basically 90% of everything is done by automation and artificial intelligence, and we’ll just collect the universal income. First of all, I think that’s a bunch of hogwash but even if it’s not what about the transition years? When unemployment hits 20% then a few years later it hits 30% then a few years later it hits 50% those are gonna be some very ugly years before we reach this great utopia that these developers tell us will happen. I personally question the motive behind the people at the top developing this stuff. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.

 

@Chinatown

 

One of the drivers I know picked up at a fully autonomous warehouse w/ no people inside it a few years back. It took the driverless forklifts almost 8 hours to load his truck, but I'm sure they've improved their performance by now.
Won't be too long before trucking companies invest in a fleet of AVs and use drivers as the fail safe until they eventually don't need them. In the near future, the trucking jobs that actually need drivers are gonna become a lot more scarce... and will probably pay peanuts

@Lennythedriver the top could care less about the bottom

 

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Join the US Navy SeaBees and drive trucks there, then retire in 20 years with a lifetime pension and healthcare for life.

 

Lot of water warehouses are fully automated. As for trucking it aint gonna affect otr drivers like me till after I've hung it up so I aint worried.

 

Yeah, Chinese Ghost Ports, only takes less than a dozen people to run a giant size port.
Here's two of them:
https://youtube.com/shorts/yvfiBbDwVg8?si=83MgAEscu9OKw4T0
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https://youtube.com/shorts/iLQKU6-dLYo?si=0oEXRlVQGbn_g9N1
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Why isn’t something like this happening in usa? What’s the reason