4 ms·
Truck drivers need to work with their union(s) to lobby for a law that says that only union members can own an autonomous driving agent. Problem solved - we hav
by intrasight 10y ago
Truck drivers need to work with their union(s) to lobby for a law that says that only union members can own an autonomous driving agent. Problem solved - we have self-driving trucks but trucking companies must "hire" an agent via a union member. To become a union member, you'll still have to a rigorous apprenticeship and training program - and of course pay your union dues.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoSounds like featherbedding. Putting pointless people in the middle just to skim money from the process. Who benefits? Nobody but them. Reminds me of how the railroads had to pay into the pension fund for Firemen, long after steam engines were dead and gone. Just because.
- mason55 10y agoThe same way that the unions in NYC have forced the MTA to keep the hugely expensive, 100 year old backup control & signaling systems on the fully-automated lines even though it's 100% not necessary.
- intrasight 10y agoIs no more fetherbedding than any other regulated profession (doctors, layers) who get to themselves decide who is a member in good standing.
- intrasight 10y agoAnd to carry the analogy further, AI agents are now better than radiologists at analyzing images. But the AI agent works for/under the direction of the radiologist.
- aianus 10y agoWhy is that a model to aspire to? It makes me angry when I have to pay a doctor $100 for something stupid and trivial like a prescription for a vaccine.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoHa! A guy that takes a cut for 'managing' an autodriving truck - which then drives itself - is very different. Because doctors and lawyers actually do work.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- sverige 10y agoOnly a small percentage of drivers are union members, mostly those in the LTL segment of the industry.