Predictions???
Predictions???
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- scarabin0
in a few years self-driving vehicles will gain traction and the trucking/transport industry will be one of its biggest casualties.
hundreds of thousands of middle-aged, overweight men with no other skills will suddenly find themselves fucked
- I though of that but i think they will be operators to monitor the truck computers dont malfunction. prob they will be able to double loads, 10 yrs full auto?yurimon
- half the amount working? increase in tech maintenance, tech people?yurimon
- if you have a self-driving truck the ability to monitor it remotely isn't much of a stretchscarabin
- though i do think it will take some time for people to accept them as safe, perhaps even an entire generationscarabin
- yeah techs and mechanics will be finescarabin
- they are only dangerous if they go on the streets of today, isn't it more likely that they build separate transportways and operate the thing more like a trainArchitectofFate
- prob the the hov lanes will eventually be turned over?yurimon
- If 1000 of them went out and actively shot at (to disable) drive-less trucks, logistic companies would have to hire a load of cheap security officers. Which mPeter
- ,,,which means lots of more jobs for middle-aged, overweight men with no other skills.Peter