US Govt. says 80 to 100% of truck driver jobs will go away

Trucking is not Political or Military. It's all Private.

Companies seek to dispose of the hassle, expense of drivers entirely and buy Ottos to run remotely from dispatchers.

 

The most profitable business to be in is the business of BS. Looking at current conditions people in the sales and broker business leech off of the system of people that actually work for a living and actually produce something.

In the end the business of BS'ing will never become obsolete. Whether or not drivers lose their job can go either way, but ultimately in the long run it will be automated. Not a question of if but when.

 

Yet they still keep coming.......perhaps it's time to put down the coffee?

 

The trucks will have drivers in them. The title will change will no longer be called transporters, delivery drivers, truck drivers, or Logistics professionals. They'll be engineers without any real OTR experience. Sure they'll be educated and book smart but they won't know how to handle it when it gets dicey. Just like the difference between book smart and street-smart. The quick thinking decisions that one has to make when driving you can't learn in a book that can't be taught in a classroom making a split decision Defensive Driving maneuver comes with experience and confidence in oneself. But yes they will have somewhat of a driver.

 

Your right, I read somewhere that when they start platooning there will be a driver in the truck to drive it when it breaks off from the Platoon.

 

Indeedy. Those Drone Pilots are laughed at all the time. Ridiculed even. But they are in combat just the same even if they have to commute to war in Nevada for 8 hours a day and go home to the wife and kids knowing there is steaming bits of dozens of enemies hanging around trees half a world away.

You would think drone pilots will quit after a while and need replacement.

I would have been one. There is no difference when there is a good amount of electronic, environmental support and command sequences to follow.

What does it matter? Oh yes... Drone trucks being driven remotely by me at home over the internet to one or more of 18 wheelers rolling into the night around the USA. Follow the dots and check on them all night long. Pay me 5.00 a mile every group of 10 trucks under remote management.

There are possibilities for a future. For those who seek it out despite the very bad things that might happen to most people who find themselves unemployed becuase driving itself is obselete as a way of making a living.

 

I agree that the infrastructure will be about the last thing to happen with this. As everything else, it will have to start out with a fairly small test area. And then, after proving itself, which it will, eventually, they will start building the infrastructure to handle it. We think that road construction is hugely expensive, time consuming , and a general PITA now, just wait till they start this rebuilding process.

It may be mostly private, but it certainly is political!

 

I know we're not all in agreement here, but you gotta admit, this kind of tech is pretty ######.

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/...2f2a&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

 

I know technology is a good thing but not all technology is good. take for example. The admissions machine for automobiles that little piece of tech put how many two Bay gas station/ service station mechanics out to pasture? and that was decades ago and we just keep a Rollin. I'm just wondering when the day is going to come when these government suits are going to wake up and realize we've crossed over too far. those dirty money hungry officials are going to be like alright we've designed and built and built and designed and now we have robots and computers and vehicles that can do everything for everybody for all causes so now there's not even I need for.......... Wait a minute???? There's not even a need for????ME !!!!!!!!!!!!! Now that we have these little computers that are voting on their own and passing a law on legislation there's no need for myself Senator John Q!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

A State house legislature voting via AI routines programmed by Party Leaders and managed by 18 year old College Interns on a H1b Visa.

UGH. Someone hand me a bullet....