Since autonomous trucks are gaining serious ground should I be looking for a new career?

Go in your sleeper and stream HD video over 4g and tell me honestly the sensations you feel inside your skull. We’re frogs in boiling water. And yes 5g is going to be installed in street lights. I don’t want to argue, but people should know one of the reasons why they feel sick.

 

IDK, I don't think autonomous vehicles will be very common for quite some time, but I think for different reasons than the technology hurdles many have mentioned. I think the legal liability issues will seriously hender the implemention of autonomous vehicles. Question is, when an autonomous vehicle kills someone of does damage, who is legally and financially responsible? The programmers? The manufacturer? The vehicle owner? I think those legal tort type issues will seriously impede the common use of autonomous vehicles much more than people realize. These issues are going to be tied up in courtrooms for years before any kind of consensus and precedence emerges and until then, the potential financial tort risks will be just too great for any widespread use to develop. Niche stuff here and there perhaps, but in common use, I don't think so. My opinion anyway. I could be wrong.

 

I know I feel light headed and nauseous when YouTube videos take forever to load.

Bring on the 6g!!!

 

Well Wilson just took the first step.

platooning.


Trucking Company to Soon Equip 1,120 Trucks With Autonomous Platooning Technology



drivers get paid the same but move twice as much.

 

That's how it has always been in trucking. Truckers got a raise every so often and every so often the trailers got longer and the weight limits got higher. So yeah, the trucker got a raise but the MAN paid the same to move the freight because he hired one fewer driver for every 8 loads. The MAN's next goal is to replace 1/2 the drivers and after that, get rid of all the drivers and keep our share of the dollars.

 

Join the Air Force or Navy. Pick a career that is useful on the outside to fall back on if you don't like it. I went into the AF and it was the best experience of my life. After four years and no college degree I could get six figure jobs all over the world working with computer networks doing easy work.

Trucking will become automated way faster than people here think. I used to be a train engineer. I remember that the entire work force was in denial like you are hearing here. Everyone likes to think their job is special and can't be done by a computer. Well trains are basically fully automated now. Their software learned from everyone running trains and went from terrible to very good. The only reason people are still in the locomotive cab is because of unions.

A computer is a much better driver than any human. They can get fuel costs down better than any human and that is all that matters in transportation. Companies have a huge incentive for that reason alone.

Tesla cars already put down more safe automated miles than non automated cars and it's only going to better.

Within 15-20 years the entire ground transportation industry is going to be wiped out as a career option. It won't be long before a universal wage will be required to keep the country from total collapse and other sectors are experiencing the same shift to automation.

 

The government also has a vested interest in keeping truck drivers on the road if they let the autonomous vehicles take over the industry you wouldn’t have massive unemployment. Truth be told as automation replaces cashiers factory workers and drivers. We will honestly have to look at more of a socialist type society because the lower class will not be able to find a job anywhere

 

But for me who is trained as electronic technician It will be a good thing overall

 

government doesn’t have a vested interest in keeping trucks on the road, in fact companies trying to lower costs are pushing for automation in all sectors.

if this platooning becomes reality you will see major shift to this technology for the megas.

 

Actually there have been multiple reports from the US department of labor on how automation needs to be slowed down because of increased unemployment that it creates. And increase in snap benefits as well as decrease in income taxes. Let’s face it most truck drivers would be asking do you want fries with that if they quit driving. And them jobs are disappearing due to automation.