http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-automated-trucks-labor-20160924/
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/25/driverless-beer-run-bud-makes-shipment-with-self-driving-truck.html
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/2/15728012/waymo-alphabet-test-self-driving-trucks
Truck driving will become entirely automated. It isn't an issue of if but when. Probably by the end of this decade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSKi8HfcxEk
What does any of our fiscal politics matter when no one will have jobs to argue over divisions of labor and wealth?
More free time.
>>130869175
>by the end of this decade
Try in 60 years. Maybe.
>>130869704
Just in the US, we can't agree on how people should be cared for with health care. What's gonna happen when businesses have no more motivation to create when no one has any buying power?
how will we function as a society?
>>130869857
I meant by the end of this coming decade. There are a lot of rumors but there is a supposed soft launch from Google in the next 5~ years.
They already have semi-autonomous driving software in Tesla cars that are already far more safe than humans.
Soon we will put them in most cars, insurance prices will go down to almost nothing (unless you choose to drive), and jobs start dropping