Will industry shortage make automation come sooner

Maybe it's time to hit those books.

What industry shortage are you taking about?
A driver shortage? That is fallacy at best.

 

What shortage?

 

John Connor was supposed to save us from the robots.

 

He did that already.

We don't remember it because it all started in an alternate (well, the original) time line.

 

Truly self driving vehicles are a long ways off. Has nobody else had a software update that screws something up a bit on your phone or then needs separate apps updated, does nobody think that'll happen to your completely computerized cars?

 

again it is not a driver shortage.

It is a PAY shortage. If you saw that I earned 0.48 in late 2001, I should be using Government's COLA increases be earning about 0.68 per mile today. But because of the way this industry is structured if I tried to hire on with a mega they will offer me 0.32 which I will decline. Because I worked my way up through that low pay back in the 90's I can never go back.

 

And because there is unwillingness to pay drivers properly, they will eventually be seen as a excessive loss item and eliminated from the loss column by use of robot trucks. You don't have to pay robots or benefit them like you do humans. (You can however tax their productivity like any citizen to support all humans living on the porch with no job prospect cradle to grave.)

 

I think Swift or somebody will try it, and when their accident rate doubles they'll be sued out of existence.

 

Well, since there is an overcapacity right now, thus a driver overage....

And in the approx 10 or so years of the current research we went from cruse control to cruse control with lane keeping that mostly works. Until it rains, or snows, or well anything than perfect conditions.