I am an automated test engineer, and for all the wonderful technology that displaces lower end jobs you need to hire people to program and maintain all these sophisticated systems.
The real crime is they want us to do it on a truck drivers wages.
I’ve not in the crowd that is bemoaning the lost jobs...just pointing out economic and technical hurdles. And your comment about paying programmers truck driver wages actually re-enforces my point - I don’t see a huge savings in converting to driverless trucks. Even more so if the programmers are in a different wage zone.