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And two more bubbles: long haul trucking and taxis. Getting rid of drivers is a high priority for that industry. Human drivers are expensive and they can only
by imglorp 10y ago
And two more bubbles: long haul trucking and taxis.
Getting rid of drivers is a high priority for that industry. Human drivers are expensive and they can only drive 70 hours a week. [1]
Oh, and Uber is dying to get rid of all its drivers too. [2]
1. https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/new-hours-service-safety-regulations-reduce-truck-driver-fatigue-begin-today https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/new-hours-servi...
2. http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/01/27/how-ubers-autonomous-cars-will-destroy-10-million-jobs-and-reshape-the-economy-by-2025-lyft-google-zack-kanter/ http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/01/27/how-ubers-autono...
- city41 10y agoIn a sense, the damage Uber and Lyft have already done to Taxis was a boon for them. They get some extra heads up that their industry is probably going to become defunct.
- ValleyOfTheMtns 10y agoAND public transport, particularly buses, but I'm sure trams/trains will eventually be automated too.
- larvyde 10y agoA lot of trains already are...
- iaw 10y agoMaritime shipping...
- imglorp 10y agoYeah, good point, ships are pretty automated. But ships really do need crews for constant maintenance and supervision. You can put the helm on autopilot but that's about all it can do. Now, let's talk about this again when someone makes a decent R2 unit.
- dredmorbius 10y agoShipping is already tremendously automated. The remnants are most difficult, and the environment is difficult and has some particularly bad failure modes. There are numerous tasks shipboard which aren't readily automated, and once you have one person aboard, you tend to need more (cooks, maintenance, multiple shifts, mechanics, etc.). The reduction in employment in shipping since the 1950s, particularly relative to cargo handled, is already immense, much of that from containerisation though.