Should we be worried about robot trucks taking jobs in the next decade?

They havent even made a full automated train yet

 

Ok so there is one and it doesnt haul freight. I just think its jumping the gun a little when were going straight to self driving trucks but dont have any freight trains or cars yet

 

no it will not happen overnight, nor in the next decade.

i do not "see" automated trucks for at least 20 years from now, if not longer.

there simply are still way too many variables in this that they are not aware of or sure of how to work with.

if anything at all, we might "see" automated trucks running on some sort of grid system built into the roads, at a huge cost, and THAT i do not "see" too many people wanting more tax dollars pumped into a system, over say road repairs and bridge repairs..unless some people want to see MORE high dollar tolls to fund this, and i mean nearly EVERY ROAD in this country, including the roads to all farms, factories, and unemployment offices...

 

I quit worrying about it.

Let the robot trucks roll if trucking companies are so intent on eliminating the human cost of keeping drivers at all at any price or wage. It will be 0.00 a mile running a robot. Half a million per tractor and god only knows what obese technology supported by college IT interns scrambling to rescue bricked computer robots in the dead of a wyoming storm.

We will suffer for it.

Frankly to be blunt they can choke on it.

 

Consider this. Alphabet (Google) is who started the current self driving car hype about a decade ago. In that time we went from cruise control to adaptive cruise control and lane keeping. We really don't have anything more. All the articles stating self driving this and self driving that are just hype.
Once we get adaptive cruise and lane keeping that work in the snow, then we might see full self driving a decade or two after that.

 

You can worry about whatever you want, I'd be more worried about snowstorms in July than that.

 

What we have right now that is in prototype phase and only a handful of carriers are using is a truck that can stay within a lane and maintain speed and distance. It still can’t drive into the destination it doesn’t back into a door or the sort. And that’s with decades of R&D pumped in it. They still need a driver in it. Any current driver with experience is going to refuse a pay cut just because the truck can hold its lane. So they’re going to have to trick the rookies coming out to school with this scheme. I’d love to see how the rookies react when the technology fails in the middle of the road I’d bet you they would be in the bunk watching a movie only to have the truck steer into the ditch.