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Teamsters convince Congress to block driverless trucks

• xbmcuser 9y ago
  With all the talk about India banning AI cars to protect jobs I believe US just banned trucks to protect Anerican jobs
• kayman 9y ago
  Block driverless trucks? I can see this only working short term. Long term, the benefits of driverless trucks are too great to ignore. I'm curious to see how long and what tactics are used to delay this inevitable technology. Similar to how Tesla faces all sorts of issues from the traditional car dealerships. I'm also interested to see the politicians jumping on the bandwagon talking about saving jobs as an excuse to promote this agenda.
• yc-kraln 9y ago
  * over 10,000 pounds. Well, they also explicitly made it legal for trucks under 10,000 pounds ;)
  • thunderrabbit 9y ago
    Hmm.. because the cost of the driver goes to zero, self driving smaller trucks might take over the entire market of trucking.