Truckers Against Autonomous Trucks
Mutha Trucker scoops mainstream media?
Teamsters, California Labor Federation, and some California lawmakers are introducing legislation to keep a human in the cab.
ralph
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Now is the time to push back.
Really stupid to fight progress.
Andy
Luddites against mechanized looms and knitting frames. Been there. Done that.
The Captain
Labor unions, like anyone else, want to keep the jobs.
DB2
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Maybe. But when youâre talking about 80,000 pounds of freight rolling on the same highway as your family in a Jetta, maybe we shouldnât rush into it with quite the same cavalier attitude as we have with self-driving cars, i.e. âLetâs let you be the Guinea Pig on the highways so we can make more moneyâ.
I would hope this effort would start with âalready in place regulationsâ, and that safety would be monitored better than it was, say, back at the dawn of the motorcar, railroad, or aviation industries.
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Really easy to solve. Require the families of the executives of the vehicle manufacturers to travel next to all automated trucks. IMO, that might be a good motivation for the execs to âget it rightâ. Then again, beware of upcoming/potential divorces, breakups, etc.
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Having driven a lot on highways I vouch that professional drivers in 80,000 pound trucks are much safer than teenagers out for a joy ride.
The Captain
used to be a travelling salesman
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I understand, I worked for a Union at one time, but you donât keep jobs by fighting progress, you find ways to adapt. If the job is not there you have to train for another job. Not many buggy whip makers anymore.
Andy
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We used to have a fly problem. Now we have a heat problem. Next we will have a job problem? And we will need to revert back to the fly problem?