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...truck makers racing to build autonomous trucks. This trend has led to dozens of reports and news articles suggesting that automation could effectivel
by TekMol 8y ago
...truck makers racing to build autonomous trucks.
This trend has led to dozens of reports and news
articles suggesting that automation could effectively
eliminate the truck-driving profession.
Could you beat around the bush more then this?
'trend' 'suggesting' 'could' 'effectively'
Driving is being automated and then the truck-driving profession will be gone.
The rest of the article seems similarely bloated. With it's scenarios and diagrams and stuff.
- jpm_sd 8y agoThe intended audience is social policy wonks, not HN geeks.
- exhilaration 8y agoDriving is being automated and then the truck-driving profession will be gone. Not for a 100 years, don't believe the self-driving hype. That's what the rest of the article is about, the long distance highway truck driving jobs will (mostly) disappear but there's going to be a ton of city truck driving jobs that are likely to remain the domain of humans for decades to come.
- dsfyu404ed 8y ago>but there's going to be a ton of city truck driving jobs that are likely to remain the domain of humans for decades to come. This. Someone has to wheel around that pallet jack loaded with beer. Someone has to hand the clipboard and pen to the person signing for the delivery. Someone has to tarp the load. At some point the tech will get good enough, a switch will flip and meat based steering wheel holders sitting in front of dry vans on interstate highways will be replaced with semiconductor based steering wheel holders. Everything else will change much more slowly.
- ska 8y agocity truck driving jobs that are likely to remain the domain of humans for decades to come. This is the most likely scenario, true, but also that those jobs and working conditions will likely get worse over time.