You have to remember that these machines are also learning. When they say “machine learning” in the AI field, they literally mean that, like us humans, the AI is getting smarter from experience. So eventually these driving AI’s are going to be the best / safest drivers under any and all conditions. Carrier companies will then simply not be able to justify paying a human driver $60k-$80k per year when they can pay an AI driver nothing and don’t have to worry about its drive hours either.
An AI driver never has to sleep, drink, eat, go to the bathroom and it also never gets distracted, takes its eyes off the road, or speeds. It can drive non-stop 24/7, doesn’t make human errors, and is much much safer than any human driver.
Not only are the human drivers not going to be needed, in 20 years it will likely be illegal for a human to drive an 80k pound vehicle simply because it will be too unsafe and dangerous relative to the AI drivers.
I’m not trying to pick on truck drivers either, every job is at risk. I don’t care what you do for a living, every job that can be automated will be. Doctor, lawyer, accountant, doesn’t matter.
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