After First Self-driving Fatality, Experts Say Millennials Might Flock to Become Truck Drivers

I’d like to respond to the epic rant, but there’s just to much to cover. He’s right to a point about boomers though. But I do wonder if he knows the difference between health care and insurance, because so few know. So many think that buying insurance is buying healthcare. Also want to point out 40 year olds are not boomers. The last year of boomers was born in ‘64.

 

Oh, and I almost forgot. Those saying they won’t see autonomous trucks in their lifetime.............. they are already out there.

 

Honestly there is no reason for any person to be outside or on the highway.
Everything can be delivered to our doorstep by driverless vehicles and robots and drones.
We all have FaceTime so we don’t have to travel to meet anyone.
Everyone has a giant tv so movie theaters are obsolete.
Sports can be watched st home on that same tv.

Bowling is the only thing we would need to travel for.

 

I was a licensed health insurance agent years back. I don't care how my medical care gets paid for, I do not want to live my life living in fear of getting sick because the doctor will ask me 'how much can you pay?' instead of 'this is how much this costs' followed by some sane number.

Today if I get sick I'll get to enjoy being uninsured but actually capable of paying for it.... But only if I get so suddenly sick that I can't buy a ticket to somewhere sane.

 

This is what airline pilot's have been dealing with for years, hours of watching gauges and hands off flying have led to all kinds of deadly accidents. Your asking a human to act like a machine, to at a split second make a decison while still trying to process just what is going on. That being out of the loop decision making is compounded by pilot's with less hands on flying experiene than their veteran peers.

 

I have never piloted an aircraft but due have a great appreciation and respect for those that do. I watch lots of programs on airplane disasters and why they happen. Air space is very much controlled and such a way that there kinda are lanes for aircraft much like cars. Automation in the ####pit has brought on a whole new host of problems much like it will for drivers despite how great these computers may be.

 

If otr companies would pay actual miles driven. Along with paying for everything the driver did. At either a flat rate or hourly. I'm sure the unemployment and homeless rate would go down.