[Sgt_Schultze]

This is coming soon to the long-haul trucking industry - many mom & pops owning very expensive rigs. With mature driverless protocols, driverless trucks could go many hours beyond what is permitted by human operated. Faster turnarounds and shipments.

Estimates of 15.5 million trucks operate in the U.S.. Of this figure 2 million are tractor trailers. It is an estimated over 3.5 million truck drivers in the U.S. Of that one in nine are independent, a majority of which are owner operators. source

Due to technology, an ugly intractable mess is surging at us.

[dp0622]

That’s sad.

I wonder in history what new tech has hit others hard.

The auto. I guess horse carriage makers went downhill :)

The train didn’t really replace anything except horrifying excursions across the country by horse and foot, I guess.

Airlines? I dont know. I guess they hit the cruise ship industry hard.