How will autonomous trucks affect driver (pilot) pay?

Anybody dumb enough to sit in an autonomous truck deserves their life ruined, which is what they'll get when that truck wrecks.

 

You keep hearing about self driving truck companies going belly up or getting stalled it's just too expensive and unrealistic to make it happen fortunately.

 

Its coming and quicker than most of us realize. look at how many cars already have the technology. America has fallen out of love with cars and the lure of the open road has lost its luster. Its time to face the facts, driving can be done safer and CHEAPER by technology!

 

Big deal.

People get scared of little changes where it won't effect them.

 

I actually am looking forward to seeing it come true and with a big farming background we have had this technology for over 10 years and yes I know that there is a big difference between running 70 with others on the road and 15 mph in a field but I was extremely hesitant about it on tractors and had the same thought as all of yall but after being around it i have come to enjoy using it there is just a less stressful after you get used to it steering for you and gives you more time to pay attention to other things with your rig and be able to do the job more efficiently but if you think that you can now sleep or play on your phone you will be the problem on the road

 

Dont need it and dont want it. It wont be going in my truck . the day they make it a law that every car on road has to be robot , that is the day i hang up the keys. Until then ill be westbound runnin cmon

 

Here is something from the link you provided:

"Even with the concerns that loom over the automated vehicle industry, according to Business Insider, “Tech leaders and financiers alike are confident that self-driving trucks will become the norm as early as the next decade"

In other words, the people pushing for this technology admit that they are probably 10 years away from making it happen, and in my opinion they're much further away than that. It's much easier and safer to make an autonomous car that can't kill a bunch of people on the roads, and nobody has gotten that done yet.

The article you linked to is over a year old, and there has been very little new written about autonomous trucks since then. Whenever you hear about one of these companies now saying that they made a successful test run of a certain distance without a human behind the wheel, they're just looking for more investment capital. It doesn't mean they're any closer to making it a reality.