Trucking paid for Scott Spindola to take a road trip down the coast of Spain, climb halfway up Machu Picchu, and sample a Costa Rican beach for two weeks. The 44-year-old from Covina now makes up to $70,000 per year, with overtime, hauling goods from the port of Long Beach. He has full medical coverage and plans to drive until he retires.
But in a decade, his big rig may not have any need for him.
Carmaking giants and ride-sharing upstarts racing to put autonomous vehicles on the road are dead set on replacing drivers, and that includes truckers. Trucks without human hands at the wheel could be on American roads within a decade, say analysts and industry executives.
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I'm glad I don't drive the Big Rigs anymore. :S:D
This sounds like disaster in 2 ways...loss of jobs and no drivers to stear...dangerous when youcounting on safety on the highways. I think....and how do we fight this new technology?:@
One does not fight it...it cannot be beaten, and eventually this will be a fact...just look at history and the things that we take for granted now where once things that people at the time tried to stop.
The question is when will the technology be around to make it realistic...remmber the cars in 'Minority Report'...we are not that far away from that either. :p
The question is when will the technology be around to make it realistic...remmber the cars in 'Minority Report'...we are not that far away from that either. :p
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