Is the cost of a driver so out of line that companies are willing to invest millions if not billions to develop this technology?
That’s our new economy. Absolutely anything is justified if it can destroy an American blue-collar job.
Yes
Starting pay per mile for a CDL is .50ish cents a mile. The drive 10 hours a day averaging 60 mph that’s $300 per day. If they work 5 days a week that’s $1500 a week, an assuming 2 weeks off. 75k a year.
There are over 4.5 million drivers in the US.
That’s about $337,500,000,000 annually assuming they were all being paid the minimum
Reality most are paid more
So yes, looking at probably well over a 1/2 a trillion or more in savings if drivers are no longer needed.
“Developing” such tech is of importance only ‘cause it results in a big bucket of tosh — which is skimmed.
That the bucket is filled with just-printed currency “free” from the US taxpayer is not an issue — at least not with the criminals in charge.