I drove too much in the past ten weeks. And I also read that article:
I can’t stress enough how hard this is about to change our current state of affair. I can’t stop thinking about it:
– Millions of jobs connected immediately superfluous. Where we needed ten people for logistics we’ll now need maybe two or three? The fact that technology takes care of hard and dangerous tasks is great, now it really asks our society how do we live when jobs get destroyed in a few years? We know how, I just hope autonomous vehicles will spark a serious conversation about that. Right now the media tells the story of the evil Uber that everyone uses, a company who doesn’t compensate its drivers as it should but Uber is already at the next step, guys.
– My fantasy/anime imagination sees fleets of self-driving trucks attacked by old rebels who still know how to drive real cars with real sticks and dirty gas with youngsters hacking those robots through AR. Mad Max meets The Matrix.
– My foster uncle is a veteran truck driver. He drove through Europe for three decades. He connected with other truck drivers. He learned to speak a bit of English, German, Spanish, Polish, Italian. Trucks drivers shared stuff from their countries. We’re going to lose that. We’re going to be even more inside our bubbles and stranger to each other.
– No more tragedy with overworked truck drivers killing people. We put a stop on that on day one autonomous trucks hit the road. I had a big truck drifting on me on the I-5, I moved to the left and I saw the driver being tired as fuck. This needs to never happen.
– Yes the possibility to work, have sex, sleep do weird deals in self-driving cars is going to go up by 45,000%.
– I look at cities like LA and I feel like train is not the answer at all. That road network is perfect for self-driving cars. Peer to Peer. Door to Door.
– Which means biking will be safer than ever, yay.
– It’s going to democratize transportation to the max. My generation will be the first to get old and unable to drive and that will not be a problem at all, we will still be able to go anywhere. I still remember when my grandfather couldn’t navigate around town anymore. Huge hit on the moral, man. No need for grandkids to drive them around!
Overall way less stress. I can’t wait.