JCC Goodbye, trucker!

Learning material for this thread: Self-Driving Trucks Are Going to Hit Us Like a Human-Driven Truck

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Corporate monsters like Google and humanoid monsters like Elon Musk seem convinced that self-driving cars are right here. And with self-driving cars, come self-driving trucks. How does that affect us, true blooded Americans? When, when the map of the most common 'Murikan job looks like this...



...I'd say it affects us quite a bit (also, lol at FL, who do they think they are with their schools?). Why aren't we seeing revolts like in ye olde Industrial Revolution? Why isn't Google HQ burning down as we speak?


ITT we mostly marvel at self-driving cars, because yay retrofuture, but also post apocalyptic Peak Trucker predictions.

 

Probably because I had no idea how many truck drivers there are. Although now that you bring it up it does make sense that there would be quite a few.

 

lmao that the most common profession in florida probably has significant overlap with the most common reason for suicide in florida

 

I'm glad self-driving cars are the wave of the future instead of, say, far cheaper, easier, more environmentally friendly, robust public transportation in every large U.S. city. Thanks, techno-libertarian Silicon Valley billionaires! I look forward to not being able to sue Uber after an accident because the car's computer brain is an independent contractor.

 

I guess this means the decline of Maveriks and Flying Js.

 

It's not like suing real people who cause an accident is any easier. I've been involved in two cases where another driver hit us and each case took a couple of years and was the results weren't as good as we wanted. Considering the driverless cars are safer, I'll take them over people any day.

Furthermore, at least when to CA, the left has a lot of responsibility when it comes to why public transportation sucks. They'd rather focus their efforts on destroying any attempt made by a company to send shuttles/buses for their employees because railing against silicon valley is easier than fixing crappy public transportation.

 

My comment about Uber was a criticism of the legal gymnastics it uses to avoid liability, not an endorsement of our civil justice system or a comment about the safety of driverless cars.

 

The self driving truck will require millions of miles of testing, it'll be at least another decade before any driver loses a job to one.

 

google will eventually get its butt kicked when all the car companies dump on them and start advertising how good the thrill of driving actually is. They will basically say that they want to take jobs and your fun away.


Also self driving cars can't tell you whats going on with the road. For example if a tie rod is loose and you start to pull it won't know what is wrong. Plus it won't know about a flat tire on a trailer unless all the tires have sensors. It won't know if the wind is dangerous or when to pull over.

Why cause the trucking companies that buy these asenine things will be extremely cheap and not fix anything cause the computer told me nothing was wrong.

 

It's all about traveling the country with your pet monkey in search of adventure. Plus the bonus of up to $39,000 annually. Because that's the American dream.

 

Why would they? GM are one of the largest investors in this technology. They can easily start producing self-driving cars instead of redneck-powered cars.

 

You'll be used as a segue whether you like it or not!

 

This isn't a Jabbadabbadoo thread! I've been bamboozled!

 

Big Ben, this here's the Duck, looks like we got us a convoy.