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Getting rid of the immigrants will increase wages for shit like CDL work and people will just figure it out the way they always have. Really the only bad thing about the slow death of the Bullshit Job is that it’s not happening faster.
Self driving trucks are coming
For long haul interstate moves, they are already here in Texas and soon to come across I-10 from Dallas to Phoenix and eventually to the Western edge of Atlanta. Pilot truck stops are investing in specialized refueling stations just for autonomous trucks. And government and the automated trucking providers are in agreement on advanced safety inspection processes (mostly using retired cops to start) to get every vehicle fully inspected daily at their terminals.
But urban traffic self driving trucks are probably a generation away because the collision avoidance protocols are exponentially more difficult and really are not profitable. The companies involved would rather invest their money into researching long-haul driving through bad weather.
These are bullshit. They are basically remote controlled on what amounts to a closed course with the amount of pilot cars the escorts tehy have. I remember one of these firm touted their thousandth safe mile…I mean OK that’s what a long haul driver does in less than two shifts.
It’s just a scheme to extract investor dollars. Vaporware.
No escorts any more. Some states still require a person to sit in the driver's seat, but they do basically nothing.
Aurora started running Dallas-Houston round trips a few weeks ago.
https://ir.aurora.tech/news-events/pres ... g-in-texasI was one of three facilitators of about two years of meetings between autonomous tech companies, FMCSA, and CVSA about replacing Level I inspections at weigh stations. Every person in that room would fully admit that getting on I-10 at mile marker X and staying on I-10 until mile marker Y is a far simpler problem that pulling into a random warehouse in Schiller Park in a snowstorm at 4pm. Nobody's going to spend money doing research for the latter.
There will always be a market for drayage and delivery drivers as well as short-haul drivers who can be home every night or every other night. Just like my phone isn't going to fix my HVAC system.
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