What Do You Think of Autonomous Trucks?

When looking at this, you have to remember that this has happened many times to many trades over the last 100 years, often in even more drastic and rapid form than autonomous trucks, and affecting larger numbers of people, and it never has caused a mass die-off as a result. In fact, just the opposite, they have allowed population growth and advancement.

There are a lot of people driving truck that are smart enough to do many other greater things, but driving pays good so they let their potential go to waste, and while there are some who are... best suited for driving lol? that will be hurt by it, there is no way that it will decimate the population.

Society always shifts and adjusts for these things.

 

Pretty soon railroads will take all the trucking jobs away. They don’t need drivers...New thing.

 

How would railroads replace trucks?
You have to have special facilities to handle rail loads, and most people don't have them, and are long ways away from any railroads anyway.
All trains can do well is take large single loads from one place to another a long ways away, then you need trucks to haul it from the railroad depot to the customer.
Also, because of having to go intermodal at each end of the rail journey, you add logistics costs and delays, and trains take longer to get across the country than trucks do, so most customers that aren't already using trains won't want to start.
In addition, the rail network doesn't have much spare capacity without starting to get major congestion and delays, or having to build new rail lines, which is a lot harder and more expensive than building a road, and has less capacity.

Trains are great when you need to send 500 trailers at a time from LA to New Jersey, but then you have to have 500 trucks waiting for them to take them to where they are needed.

So it don't think we need to worry about the railroad replacing us, they outmoded the mules and oxen in cross-country trips, but still needed them at the depots to haul the freight away from the train, but the truck then replaced the train as the best way to get freight everywhere, and also serves to load and unload the trains, so without the truck, the trains will sit with no way to unload, and much of the country would be cut off because there is no railroad for hundreds of miles.

 

They have robot trains. No humans needed.

 

There aren't any unmanned freight trains in the US yet, and I don't expect to see that for a while, simply because the cost savings isn't worth it.

 

Hell they can't be anymore dangerous than Sergei in his adidas track suit, flip flops on the dash of his white Volvo.

 

Truckers will fit into the driver's seat for the rest of both of our lives.

Large scale deployment of autonomous trucks is a pipe dream.

MOST trains still have live engineers at the controls, and trains run on rails.