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[pwagland]

Actually, I think that long haulers are going to be the ones that first suffer. When you need a human there anyway to sign/unload/etc, then having that human also be a driver isn't such a huge problem. With long-haul the only thing that the human really needs to do is drive, and then, if needed, you could have a staging area to get the truck into the city… in much the same way that road-trains are dealt with.

[dmitriid → pwagland]

My thinking is that long haul happens over public roads, and the problem of navigating public roads hasn't been solved yet.

However, shorter distances especially inside large industrial zones (like in the linked article) can be reliably automated.

But yeah, however you look at it, being a truck driver in industrial countries might not be a wise long-term career choice: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/07/convoy-se...