Jobs safe from selfdriving trucks

It will never happen. Just corporate suits who never driven truck thinking they can change something they don't understand

 

Thank you, Captain Obvious. This situation isn't happening for at least five or more years. The self-driving cars keep on killing. Trucks? Please! All of you old timers have plenty of work ahead of you. But if you want to be paranoid, go make yourselves a foil hat and sit in your sleeper in despair.

 

Start driving wreckers to pick up the self driving trucks when they crash.

 

Personally I hope it's sooner than later. Some CR England jack wagon tried to pass on the left shoulder as traffic was losing the left lane. Local p&d, sure I could see that surviving, long haul bottom feeders like the dbags at your average mega..... hopefully they find work in another country.

 

Self driving trucks (and cars) are still a long way off regardless of how it is hyped by the media and the manufacturers of the technology. There have already been several deaths in Tesla cars using self driving mode, and once a few of those grieving families are awarded tens of millions, you'll see insurance companies refusing to insure vehicles in self driving mode.

It always boils down to the cost of insurance and general liability. A self driving truck plowing over a school bus full of kids because a bug splattered on a sensor will keep this technology from taking away our jobs for a very long time.

 

Meh, even if self driving cars result in x amount of payouts per y number of cars, as long as the rate is better than humans, insurance companies will be all over it.

 

The difference being that lawyers will go after the companies with the deepest pockets. If you get into an accident and kill somebody, the victim sues you and your insurance, and hope they can win a couple million. Now victims will sue you, your insurance, and the negligent tech company (worth billions of dollars) who designed the software, and the trucking company who installed it on their trucks without fully testing it properly. Think about Takata airbags that are installed in millions of cars around the world who have been sued into oblivion because a number of people have been killed and they can't afford to fix all of the bad ones still out there.

 

I doubt you’ll still be driving truck when (if) automated trucks ever become mainstream.