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Reason A: The past ten years of people on HN telling everyone that robots will soon be driving all the trucks, that "driver" is a doomed profession. Reason B:
by sandworm101 5y ago
Reason A: The past ten years of people on HN telling everyone that robots will soon be driving all the trucks, that "driver" is a doomed profession.
Reason B: All the young people who believe reason A because they lacked any clear appreciation of the financial incentives behind the people making those statements. Which leads to:
Reason C: All those "tech-savvy" people who think of driving as no more than keeping between the lines without hitting anything.
- timdaub 5y agoseconded. Now that we've seen the fragility of self driving cars and the lack of originality in driving, I think it'll be some time before truckers will be replaced. Maybe they won't be used much anymore to keep the device between two lines. They'll supervise that. But for everything else it seems a human being is required to be present.