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>So, not as sensational as the title would lead you believe. But enough to make me believe in not wanting to get a future job in driving trucks (there's a mark

• dmitriid 7y ago
  I think truck drivers (especially long haulers) are safe for at least 10-20 years. But yeah, truck are probably the first road vehicles to be reliably automated.
  • pwagland 7y ago
    Actually, I think that long haulers are going to be the ones that first suffer. When you need a human there anyway to sign/unload/etc, then having that human also be a driver isn't such a huge problem. With long-haul the only thing that the human really needs to do is drive, and then, if needed, you could have a staging area to get the truck into the city… in much the same way that road-trains are dealt with.
    • dmitriid 7y ago
      My thinking is that long haul happens over public roads, and the problem of navigating public roads hasn't been solved yet. However, shorter distances especially inside large industrial zones (like in the linked article) can be reliably automated. But yeah, however you look at it, being a truck driver in industrial countries might not be a wise long-term career choice: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/07/convoy-self-driving-trucks-completes-first-european-cross-border-trip https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/07/convoy-se...
• seanmcdirmid 7y ago
  It’s not like many kids are planning to be truck drivers. It is a job that people wander into. The bigger problem will be those that are doing it when the job goes away, as well as continued pressure on the job market as a whole (what will pop up to replace the portion of the labor pool that would have driven trucks before).