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That’s not really what happens though. Truck drivers don’t disappear. They just become “truck driver attendants” who serve only to attend to occasional human re
by meh8881 4y ago
That’s not really what happens though. Truck drivers don’t disappear. They just become “truck driver attendants” who serve only to attend to occasional human requiring edge cases. They don’t require a commercial driver license and they pay minimum wage. And thus the lower class grows.
- hn_throwaway_99 4y agoBut do you really think we'll see the same number of truck driver attendants as truck drivers? Heck, one of the things that already exists is autonomous truck caravans, where one driver can "drive" a fleet, of say, 5-10 cars.
- meh8881 4y agoI think we will see more attendants than truck drivers now, because without truck drivers, trucks are cheaper, and we will want more trucks. Probably smaller trucks too. I don’t have strong opinions on the ratio of attendants to trucks. You may be correct.
- jjk166 4y ago> one of the things that already exists is autonomous truck caravans, where one driver can "drive" a fleet, of say, 5-10 cars. Trains long predate the truck, and allow a single driver to drive hundreds of cars. But the major advantage of trucks is last-mile logistics - going from the depot where large volumes of cargo pass through to the specific place the cargo is needed. The number of truck drivers, and of future truck attendants, is proportional to the number of stops, not the amount of material being delivered. If anything, removing the bottleneck of requiring a person with a CDL to make a pickup or delivery will cause the number of truck attendants to be much larger than the current number of truck drivers (as already seen for example with Amazon delivery services, UPS trucks, etc).