I half agree. The road transport portion can easily be automated when self-driving trucks are automated. It's just the loading and unloading (from, as you sugge

I half agree. The road transport portion can easily be automated when self-driving trucks are automated. It's just the loading and unloading (from, as you suggest, a private home) that will be much harder to automate. So, you call a service that auto-drives a big container over to you, puts it in your driveway, and leaves. You load your furniture into the big container or hire "loaders" to come do it for you. You call the service, and an automated truck comes, picks up the box, drives it to its destination, puts it in the new driveway, and leaves. You unload it yourself or hire someone, and when it's empty, another automated truck comes by and gets the container. For urban destinations (no driveways), you call the truck and have loaders/unloaders waiting. For driveways that are blocked by cars or whatever, the truck calls home and a remote operator makes some choices, but he won't have to stay with the truck on the road, so he can manage a whole fleet and doesn't do any loading or unloading. The loading and unloading? Yes, some humans will have to do it for a long time. The road transport? You can automate that part separately.