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Self-driving trucks are going to hit the US economy like a human-driven truck
Late last year, I took a road trip with my partner from our home in New Orleans, Louisiana to Orlando, Florida, and as we drove by town after town, we got to talking about the potential effects self-driving vehicle technology would have not only on truckers themselves, but on all the local economies dependent on trucker salaries. Once one starts wondering about this kind of one-two punch to America’s gut, one sees the prospects aren’t pretty.
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Automation is going to be a scary thing for people, this is going to completely destroy economies, especially if that map and stats are right about the 9mm people that work in the industry. Once this happens to the trucking industry it's only a short jump over to the taxi industry and from their all public transportation. It's a slipper slope now and in the future I can't imagine what people are going to do, I've got drivers in the family and they've been doing it forever, I can't imagine if suddenly the job dried up what they would do.
Really interesting read!