re: Autonomous 18-wheelers are almost here. (Maximum Overdrive will happen soon)

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It's not that this is that moment, its that they now want to implement automation AT THE SAME TIME that they are regulating the shite out of the industry.

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Agreed, that's a different set of circumstances. Regulation rarely makes things cheaper or more efficient. The inexorable march of technology, though, almost guarantees that at some point, the driver will no longer add the value of his salary to his employer and at that point, the driver will be gone.