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Old 05-06-2017, 11:15 PM   #54
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My thought is that once driverless electric trucking significantly enters the commercial service sector we will see a class revolution within 20 years. You don't put that many people out of work without a massive social impact. Remember; everything in your house came by pipe, wire or truck. When Skynet Logistics puts all those humans out of work it is gonna get cray cray.
It's actually much, much bigger than that, but probably more complex and harder to gauge. If commercial drivers are affected, so will vehicle manufacturers, lawyers, insurance, police, surgeons, mechanics, car part suppliers, parking lot companies, municipalities, governmental employees, etc, etc, etc.

It's massively wide reaching. For example, my sister works for Alberta Transportation ensuring proper log keeping etc for commercial truckers. That job would be mostly gone.

It's an order of disruption potentially bigger than the internet
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