Automated trucks : blue-collar disaster or economic win?.
There are 3.5 million truck drivers in the U.S.; it's the most common job in 29 states. Yet there is a [dollar]168 billion financial incentive for Silicon Valley to automate truck drivers. The pros? Automation will lower the 4,000-person annual death toll caused by truck collisions, and it will...
| Format: | Video |
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Big Think,
2019.
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| Series: | Academic Video Online
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | There are 3.5 million truck drivers in the U.S.; it's the most common job in 29 states. Yet there is a [dollar]168 billion financial incentive for Silicon Valley to automate truck drivers. The pros? Automation will lower the 4,000-person annual death toll caused by truck collisions, and it will save companies and consumers money. The cons? Truck drivers with families to support and loans to pay will soon have to compete with a robot truck that doesn't need to sleep. That kind of economic hardship doesn't exist in a vacuum; it will ripple outward in unexpected ways. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed July 1, 2022). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (4 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 00:03:11 |