My main concern is what will everyone do for work when automation becomes far more prevalent?
It’s actually a serious concern.
“My main concern is what will everyone do for work when automation becomes far more prevalent?
It’s actually a serious concern.“
A valid concern but it’s a concern people have had for every new technology .
More efficiency leads to more productivity .
I think this technology is coming, but it will need separate lanes.
“My main concern is what will everyone do for work when automation becomes far more prevalent?
It’s actually a serious concern.“
A valid concern but it’s a concern people have had for every new technology .
More efficiency leads to more productivity .
I think this technology is coming, but it will need separate lanes.
As someone who works in Logistics this is something very few organizations are going to be able to duplicate. The own all the equipment and both the ship and delivery points. They can program drop and hooks on set routes where the trailers will have e-tags that a scanner will read when they go in and out of their facilities. The automated truck will have to have programed drop point or some mechanism to alert a human that it has arrived.
Very few organization are as vertically integrated as someone like Fed Ex.
Most ship points broker their loads. So a wide variety of trucking companies are contracted as needed to haul from point to point.
A few big trucking companies might be able to do long distance haul from high volume point to point shipping but they will still need human drivers to deliver to the consolidation point and then make the end point delivery.
Most people may have no idea how many responsibilities a commercial driver has that have nothing to do with actually driving.
As we have seen this happen repeatedly over the last 200 years, the pattern is this: There is confusion and hardship as the transition is made.
People adapt and learn to work less difficult, dangerous, and demanding jobs.
Productivity goes up, work hours go down, standards of living rise.
Of particular strain on the social fabric, women are able to do jobs men used to have the advantage for.
More strain on men finding a job which can support a family.
Ask Klaus Schwab and The Great Reset people. They already are working on that Plan*.
. . . .(*hint: it involves fewer people). . . .