Andrew Yang is the only presidential candidate talking about a solution to trucking job loss, as well as other automation job loss. He is worth a seriously hard look, pull up some of his long form interviews.
@@TheJonnyEnglish A trucking czar he would appoint to oversee the industry and transition, taxing transport companies and setting aside money for the workers to help them as they get displaced. This is in addition to the Freedom Dividend of $1,000 a month for everyone.
His solution is taking our money to give it to people with no driving force. Ive seen the debates he treats it like a game show. No u cannot have 1k a month. Not cutting it? Find a different job.
The automated trucks are driving infinitely only stopping for gas and unloading where there’s lots of people around. How are you gonna loot a non-stop driving truck?
Frontline needs to put the full documentary on UA-cam. It is VERY important information that needs to be disseminated. It also shows that Andrew Yang, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange are some of the most important voices of this era.
@@SmellyUnfortunate007 perhaps but I just wonder what opportunity would open up for the truckers? Many of them all they have been doing is driving I wonder would it be as easy for them to transition into something else.
What you are ignoring is the amount of riots in the streets that occurred during the industrial revolution plus the jobs that the non wealthy had were god awful. They were using Children to go inside machinery to get something out of them unstuck and many children died. Its not gonna be pleasant for the next 2 decades but after that we shall see if we prosper but that’s 20 years of turmoil
I been trucking since 2003. I started as a driver. Worked for several companies hauling serval products over the years in several areas of the country. I now own my own truck and just bought a second truck. There have been millions of not billions of dollars thrown at this problem, how to get AI trucks on the road. They haven’t solved it. You know why? They can’t. To many variables. In the end they will realize u can put an AI truck in some spots to run certain loads. Few and far in between. Must be large roads, little traffic , fee obstacles, perfect weather etc. But for the most part I just can’t see it happening. Not in Wyoming in the winds and snow, Chicago and New York traffic, Florida rains etc etc. mountains in the north west in the winter. This lady you interviewed who said she spent 100k on fuel in a year is saying she traveled roughly 160k thousand miles. If she spent 100k on fuel at 3$ per gallon and got 5 mpg avg. those are rough numbers. that’s not a trucking industry problem. That’s a problem with the freight they haul. They haul cheap loads , depend on shops for repairs and eventually go out of business. I see it every day for years. There are plenty of people making great money in this business. Great money to me is 6 figures a year. If your not making money in this business , you need to leave the business and find something you do make money in. Don’t be a fool sitting or driving and making someone else’s pockets full.
Exactly. Who will open & close its trailer doors? Put fuel in it? Maintenance on it? Lower it’s landing gear? Connect the hoses? What happens if the sensors go out in bad weather? Poor visibility? So many obstacles to overcome.
That's why the Tesla on autopilot crashed in Archer, Florida. The vehicle thought the side of the tractor trailer was a clear blue sky and moved over and was crushed.
@Boo Boo, agreed, but there are truckers that do this for a living. They don't give a damn what this guys voice sounds like. Clearly you don't drive for a living so it's easy for you lack sensitivity.
I drive a 2020 truck with a lot of driving assist features. Do you know how many times going around a bend my truck will sense another vehicle in the lane next to me and start a hard brake? I have to quickly hit the accelerator or the vehicles tailgating me (way too common people) would stack up. The truck will hard brake sometimes from people in the exit lane. Do you know how many times my truck will issue a collision warning when driving in a construction zone? And speaking of construction zones, have you ever seen all the over painted lines? Which will the auto driving think is the correct one? What about poorly paved and poorly painted roads? How about hard snow or rain that covers the road and/or blurs the vehicles sight? How will these trucks handle a 90 degree right turn in a downtown area with mass traffic? How do these trucks get fuel? Would someone be able to hack the system and cause chaos? Will there be times when the system is down? I have no doubt these are some super intelligent people working on these ideas, but I also know that they haven't been in the shit. There are so many variables that happen numerous times a day that someone who hasn't driven a semi has no idea about. Just making it go from point A to point B is a remarkable achievement, but it's also the easiest part of the process.
Tesla cars can't even get around without being on the news about malfunction accidents. Guess what's gonna happen when that happens with 80,000 pounds rolling down the highway. Total destruction and a whole bunch of lawsuits. Won't happen in my lifetime!
They're not made for reality, they're made for greed. Some big high tech company will make millions selling these things for a short time, the business will fail and the owners will walk away millionares.
@@mstewie9718 I'm sure they have recruited some truckers to get their input. I know AI won't fall asleep at the wheel like the truckers around here do all the time. I guess we'll see how well it goes.
I’m a union member but honestly that won’t help anything like with us garbagemen they tried fighting certain companies with going to the curroto trucks saying guys would get laid off they can’t stop a company from being more efficient in the long run
Don't think UBI will work - if everyone gets an increase in income the price of goods will increase accordingly - however for this family it would work- stay home and watch TV making $12,000/ yr X 2 = $24,000 versus working hard and making $22,000 - but what becomes of your soul
@@sns8420 So you wouldn't want to earn more income than 24k ? From your end comment I can tell you would still work and keep your soul ! Remember this must go through congress 1st so even if it is a lower amount it would still help most folks out.
Forward ? you mean backwards thinker. What Yang is proposing (1,000 a month) is what the Romans in the 3rd century tried to do when a huge influx of new slaves created massive unemployment amongst citizens. Business and farms would buy slaves who were cheaper rather than hire citizens. Instead of finding a real solution to the problem Romans gave the unemployed citizens free gain every month. It was seen as one of the factors that lead to the eventual fall of Rome. Substitute automation/robot for slave and, cash for grain, and we have what Yang is proposing.
jefflewis4 do you think it’s logical to use a 3rd century event to draw conclusion to a 21st century problem? I suggest you should look at Universal Basic Income/Freedom dividend beyond the stigma of free (printing) money from the Govt or money for doing nothing. As Yang said this is our Data Check from google, Facebook...including a share of trillion dollar Corporations like Amazon who pays $0 in Federal taxes. UBI/Freedom dividend isn’t guaranteed to solve every problems currently facing America but it is a 21st century solution to a 21st century problem. If I may add Andrew Yang is likely to be the only candidate who can heal or unite the divisiveness of the current state of political despair. AY’s primary focus is Humanity First. Yang2020
@@Vnexpress1203 But that's just it, its not a 21st century problem. This problem has occurred over and over many many times in history. It occurred in the 19th century when companies would hire children as cheap labor and created unemployment amongst adults. It occurred again in the 20th century when cheap overseas workers replaced U.S factory workers. Just substitute, slaves, children, overseas workers, for automation, and its the exact same problem. If you substitute cheap labor for the current labor force, unless a new industry is developed unemployment (or underemployment) is created. Giving people a small amount of money (or grain) just to survive doesn't change that they are still unemployed, still unable to support themselves. A truck driver is basically a low skilled worker who could earn a middle class wage (just like a factory worker used to). What is happening is low skilled workers are either being replaced with cheaper foreign workers or by automation. With the low skilled middle class jobs dissappearing those same low skilled workers who used to drive trucks or work in factories now work in Walmart or Starbucks for much lower wages. If you see the complete 'AI' episode on PBS. There was a chart where they showed up until the 1990's when productivity increased wages would also increase with it. But not anymore productivity is still increasing but wages are decreasing. A Truck driver in the 1980's made the equivalent of 110k in today's money, today they average about 40-50K. This type of wage decrease is un-sustainable. Its becoming much more difficult for a low skilled worker to make a middle class wage. Giving them 1,000 per month (which by itself doesn't even bring you 1/3 of the way to the poverty line) will not solve this problem.
jefflewis4 I agree with point. Thank you for a very informative response. I understand if we refuse to learn from history it’s doomed to repeat. However, Andrew Yang has said UBI isn’t all problems solver, it’s just a beginning. UBI intends to benefit many different problems currently facing America. I would refer you to Yang’s UA-cam videos where he explains in depth of his policies for better explanation. I believe Yang is the only candidate who will unite all Americans if elected president. I challenge you to give Andrew a listen I promise you will not walk away disappointed. It’s not left. It’s not right. It’s forward.
Never say tech is never going to get there. It already has. I can see serious social upheaval coming in the near future. Minimum basic income will become a necessity. .. or else penury is assured.
Melissa H Yeah let’s not try to even solve the problem, let’s let things just get Mad Max and may the strongest killerz survive the Thundersome. 😂👍🏼👉🏼🔥🔥🔥🔥
these automated trucks will be monitored by video, similar to drones, the dispatchers will be the operator, they have in cab sliders and scales, most of the jobs will be otr, at first.
"Could the rise of AI put truckers' jobs in peril?" *Is water wet?* It's going to devastate truck driving jobs and related jobs like those found at truck stops. With semi-automation I can easily see the US DOT changing the rules to allow drivers to work 12/12 which would keep trucks with two drivers always moving and destroy many driving jobs. We need a plan to help these truck drivers find another occupation and offer something like long-term unemployment payments until they find meaningful work. We could easily see over five million trucking related jobs disappear over the next ten years.
NO, we won't! I work in manufacturing at the enterprise level. I've worked for multi-billion dollar B2B companies and if you think that B2B manufacturing (of which most companies barely having a proper digital marketing campaign) which is severely being behind the digital curve compared to CPG is ready for self-driving trucks in their shipping and receiving to the point where 5 million trucking jobs are going to disappear in the next ten years you REALLY need to change your POV. In the next 50 years yeah that's a possibility but there as so many companies hiring for truckers that industry is not about to be disrupted on that kind of scale. AI in my industry is not there yet.
@@WallTrapMedia Local drivers will be the last to be replaced but that change will come when it costs less to run a self driving truck. I started working on AI back in the '90s when we were just trying to simulate a connection of a few simulated neurons and it's advanced more than I ever thought in my lifetime. In the next day or two Tesla will be unveiling their self driving truck that's squarely targeting at the local sector. I believe within 20 years all non self driving vehicles will be banned from public roads. AI is moving faster than even most in the industry can imagine.
Brian Beeler lol I can’t wait! This will be fun to watch when it snows, rains, gets stupid cold outside like-40 or when they see any kind of bad weather. All shipping will come to a halt over night for days on end until roads are cleaned and trucks can move again. You guys crack me up with this AI nonsense. I’ll be road side waiting to pick up these broke down trucks with a tow truck. It will be easy money.
Putting millions of drivers and truckstop service workers out of a job in a very short amount of time is a guaranteed recipe for disaster the likes of which we haven't seen in a very long time.
They only focus on the truckers themselves since they are the ones directly effected. What they make no mention of is the vast service industry that operates around truckers across the US and how hard they are going to get hit.
This will have a greater impact on Long Haul drivers in the very beginning. Independent drivers. Companies like, Fedex, UPS, Post Office drivers are constantly getting in and out of their vehicles. This won't have an impact on them. But for Long Haul drivers, they drive normally from point A to B. Basically drop the load and return to the domicile.
S K They need to stop by a Tesla store. Those things drive and park without human assistance. The only hold back are State regulations, that won’t hold long.
@@SKtube0 I was thinking of Tesla as a living demonstration of what is to come. It is not going to be joyful for many. Cashiers, bricklayers, delivery services, warehousing, dispatch, all those are going to go away very soon and very quickly.
@@ThemFuzzyMonsters Oh, I thought you were just referring to the brand and the features of their vehicles. Yes, I agree that for many in the workforce today, automation and AI will force the human component to become more and more obsolete in the coming years. It's why I hope my kids will become interested in the STEM fields and will also want to learn multiple languages including writing different forms of code. The days of graduating Magna cum laude, having recommendations, and noted accomplishments are just not enough anymore to secure your own life for the future.
Driverless trucks are definitely coming; however, the question is how fast will it displace most driving jobs. People outside the industry see trucks cruising a straight-a-way on a wide-open interstate and think that's all there is to driving. What about inner-city driving with tight turns and car drivers who could care less about large trucks? What about tricky, tight blind-side docks? What about construction zones, unmarked pavement, cross-merging, inclement weather, tire-blowouts, steep mountain grades, load shifts? What about hazmat, over-dimensional and tanker loads with liquid surge? What about possible vehicle sabotage by jaded former drivers? Overcome those challenges, then deal with legal liability and regulatory hurdles to deal with...and we all know how fast those hurdles get resolved. All that being said, it's a least another 10 years before driverless trucks become commonplace.
How is it possible that these people do not know that automation is not only right around the corner, it's right here? Even Fox News has covered it. Oh, and if you work in the fast food industry, you're also about to get automated.
Everyone’s job is being automated. Look around. Even the CNBC anchors jobs is being automated. They threatened to throw water on it! Lol Wall Street! Lol 😂
I’m not a Luddite by any stretch of the imagination but we as a collective whole are finding ourselves in a very dangerous situation. AI MUST BE CONTROLLED in order to ensure both employment opportunities and to not place ourselves in a situation where government is forced to pay a monthly stipend to the majority of its citizenry. The majority of people simply do not have the upper tier of intelligence necessary to be computer programmers, coders or robotic repair tech’s. I’m very happy I’m not any younger than my 53 years.
Society will ultimately need to move towards universal basic income. This is a sore spot with older generations that have the mentality that how hard you work represents your value. If you stop automation/AI through regulation then we fall behind China and watch as they become the sole technological super power. This is the reality we face today as we are about to be forced to completely rethink about capitalism and how we implement it.
Craig Pacella whereas I agree with your assessment and where the country is heading, it’s the change in societal norms that tend to upend the Apple cart for many.
Listen, I have been working in manufacturing for over 5 years. AI is at risk of putting Truckers' jobs at risk and it will disrupt the industry in the FAR-off future but we are talking about something that is at least 50 years away in terms of that tech being safe and at the end of the day MOST companies will want a human drive for the next 100 years. Once these self-driving trucks start to cause major accidents and the lawsuits start piling up the idea of of self-driving long-haul trucks will be put to bed. There are just TOO many risks to really have something like self-driving trucks operating en masse on our highways over the next 50 years. There are just too many different driving conditions that a self-driving truck can't prepare for unless it's going to be automated to the point like a video game and you have people manning the controls 24/7 and that shit is expensive as well
jacq danieles let me help you understand. A vehicle that runs 24 Hrs a day deterioration rate is faster than one that cools off OCCASIONALLY. A DETERIORATED VEHICLE / TRUCK PRODUCES MORE POLLUTION THAN ONE LESS DETERIORATED. That's one simple example, there are many more, but I'm concerned that if my original comment didn't make sense to you on such a simple level as the example I just provided, a more technical explanation(s) would overwhelm your comprehension capacity and would be a waste of my time typing it here for you.
@TRUMP SAID - lol. Nice try. Add more ignorance to an already ignorant comment. Trucks don't "deteriorate" if they run longer. And in any case, the operators will not do something to *ruin their investment.* If the vehicle needs to be cooled, that will be factored in. You can run it for 8 hours, cool it for 1, in cycles. And eventually, most of these self-driving trucks will be *electric.*
jacq danieles every man made object deteriorates by use. pollution includes rubber from tires that heat up under use and extended/prolonged use of a rubber tire causes faster deterioration than that of a tire that is allowed to cool off. It's simple, now talk to the hand if you think because a vehicle is electric the tires don't pollute the environment. WOW
So if they replace truckers, cashiers, lawyers etc, with AI to make cheaper goods... who is going to be left to buy all those goods to fill the trucks ? Seems like a dead end
@@Justin.D.DC4L - You're right, but probably for the wrong reasons. We're all part of the problem. Capitalism wants to lower costs, and we all want cheaper crap. Unless you made your phone with bamboo and mud, I'm pretty sure you're just as much part of the problem as anyone else.
She makes $50,000 He makes $120,000 After his operating expenses they have $20,000 left. That dude should stay home!! They’d have $30,000 more and have less problems.
Aliman Telejehin Not my situation at all. You can look at it this way too: Earnings: $120,000 Expenditures: $150,000 Net loss: -$30,000 Every minute that guy is on the road, they are loosing money. She covers that loss.
you are clueless. The human being is the most un-safe of all. Humans is what cause accidents. AI being the driver seat is going to be safer, just wait and see. And btw:how would know. You are probably against technology and anything that is new or different.
Spoken word was replaced by print, print by radio, radio by movies, movies by television, TV by internet. Everything gets replaced by something else, in time.
A human driver gets charged with murder in the event of an accidental death caused by their negligence. The makers of automated trucks should be held to the same exact standards.
@@nicewknd Are you asking how many? If so I have not researched an exact # but it does happen often. The DOT take on it is you are a trained proffesional ( intrestingly enough classified as unskilled labor, another story in itself) as a trained professional it is our duty to do everything humanly possible to avoid accidents at all cost, duh should be. a no brainer, hence since it requires specific training the penalties are much higher in the event of accidents. A doctor on the other hand who has the benefits of malpractice insurance, controlled working conditions, and support staff sill kill more people each year than truckers but they have a license to kill and their insurance covers it.
Technology companies have for some reason declared war not only on taxi drivers but now truck drivers. I drive for a living, what have I done to deserve this, what have WE done to deserve this?
the what ifs? mechanical failures, flats blow outs re fueling? software glitches etc. you cant program reality. its beyond our control. im getting the terminator, corporation, evil death vibe.
The first part will be intercity between distribution yards on the edge of the urban areas. Initially it will be 1 driver with 2 or 3 trucks in an follow me convoy but later it will be fully autonomous. The local loop will probably be human for now...
Deen Bloger - Yeah but, Uber didn’t stop people from buying cars and force them to only use Uber cars. This is clearly an antitrust issue. If Boeing and Airbus stopped selling planes to airlines and force people to fly on their pilotless planes (autopilot), I don’t think this would even be a discussion. I don’t have a problem with the technology, I have a big problem with monopolistic business practices.
Not just the Truck Drivers but also the workers at the rest stops and soon the wear houses are next. All the places that every day Americans work are ALL AT RISK.
Hype. They’ve been saying this for years and nothing. And let’s just say hypothetically this technology does take off. Why root for it? It will displace millions. It might be someone else today but it could be you tomorrow
Sure, what does a 20 something person know about the horrific problems that can occur in a truck without a driver? There are so many situations that take a quick thinking human to avoid an accident! Machines don't have intuition or lifelong driving experience!
What about truckers like me who do flatbed how’s the robots going to strap, chain and tarp the load people who think this automation is a decade away are not truck drivers we know it’s further away if at all possible these trucks are not just a larger version of a car I see a major problem in urban environments
I drive a truck been driving for 5 years and I'll tell you. I live out of my truck. I Go home every 3 monthes and after taxes made 44k , last year .life on the road is expansive truck stop are over priced.
Yes the truck stops are fucking expensive. Which is why i dont even stay out on the road 3-6 weeks at a time anymore. If i pack my own food...im going to get tired of it eventually and go back to eating at the truck stops again. Now i only spend up to 10 days out and 3-4 days home. Im done killing myself out there
if you sitting in your own truck right now in 10 years you will be 10 years older and not able to switch to another career No one would want to hire an Old guy maybe (walmart door greeter) You don't have a pension plan ..18 year old will take that job for 1.50$ over minimum wage.. What are you going to do? think about it..
there are fully autonomous mine sites, factories, warehouses, and, soon other industries will be more lucrative as they have fewer workers, including the transport industries; as less workers equals higher profits, machines do not have unions. Senior management and bosses drive full automation - as they gain the most from higher profits. The software engineer get a kick from developing the industry and payments, and likely they will have a job for the near future. But those put out of work do not get the trickle down. Eventually who will have the spare cash to buy the products made by machines, AI?
So how is it that a Tesla driver in a 4,000lbs vehicle gets arrested for reckless driving while sleeping behind the wheel in autonomous mode, but a driverless 80,000lbs vehicle on a interstate highway is allowed? Answer is greed.
The technology works for trains, but not the economics. Eliminating the driver on a train carrying tons of freight over long distances. or a commuter train carrying 1,000 passengers is so minuscule its just not worth the expense to upgrade the entire rail system to support it. It only works for trains for short slow moving rail systems. Like at airports, or some light rail lines.
Unions ... Deregulation .. Truckers deserve to make a decent living and live with dignity. As with so many things it is not possible to simply sideline an employment base without pain suffering and strife. I hoped take a long hard look at how we want to impact segments of our society. Peace
Up here in Canada The federal government will be putting federal bureaucrat in each of the trucks to make sure it works properly. Course the person will be paid triple what a driver would normally get.
If that engineer brings trucks are gonna drive 24/7 without a person he’s living in a bubble. Who’s gonna put fuel in the truck when needed ? Who’s gonna make sure a load is secure or a strap didn’t break ? Who’s gonna call in when the truck breaks down ? Who’s gonna stop threw a check point for inspection ? You still need a person in the cab for all those things.
Did you NOT watch the video? There are already companies in the southwest that have started using automated trucks in real world scenarios, sucessfully making deliveries. The balls already rolling, and it ain't gonna stop, friend.
@@gillz107 Let me be more clear, these automated trucks will never put myself or other drivers out of work. These things will NOT work in everyday scenarios, other than very tightly controlled exit only stuff. They WON'T work in tight situations, and various other off handed things that will make automation useless. Certain things just can't be done consistently by computers. This is one of them.
@@Charlesbjtown You can't underestimate how FAST technology improves itself over time. Yeah, there are some aspects of trucking that AI can't be able to do successfully deal with like changing weather conditions and ESPECIALLY dealing with other human drivers on the road being unpredictable. But you have to keep this in mind when thinking about the progress of getting AI trucks on the road: Who benefits from having AI trucks on the roads? trucking mega carriers and the majority of their customers they deliver to. When you have those two factors working together to get this stuff rolling, they'll work nonstop on fixing the errors that the automated trucks are dealing with until it's nearly perfected. And that's why I say that this paradigm shift in the trucking industry will happen WAY sooner than you think.
@@nasirabdullatif Well enlighten us, oh super trucker, with your VAST and extensive knowledge on the subject of trucking, instead of just chiding someone else's comment and not adding anything of worth to the topic at hand.
People this is not an if or when.......this is about the NOW! Andrew Yang has been telling you what is happening. What other candidate is prepared to handle this reality?
It's not just trucking; it's any job that could be replicated with a few equations. From data entry to brain surgery, all those jobs are at risk of being outsourced to AI. Even though, the bulk of the "damage" is still a few decades away, it would be a good idea to start educating people on possible solutions so they can guide their children the best way to deal with it when it hits them. In case it is not clear. We the adults need to work our a$$e$ off to help secure the future of our children.
I’ve been driving otr for six years. About the best they can do is drive from exit to exit just like they are doing now. They will takeout some jobs on the dry van side but their are certain segments of freight that are simply too risky or too sensitive to hook behind an automated truck. I would like to know what rate these guys operating the self driving trucks are getting?
These people make trucking look awful. Truth is, at any point right now I can make around 100k a year and more, if I wanted to and be home every night. That's more money than most people I know that went to college. As far as AI goes, there's a HUGE difference between running the interstate and city driving, snow, ice, ect. There's so many variables. I think inevitably this will be more if a symbiotic relationship between technology and humans in this industry for the foreseeable future. That's my opinion.
There needs to be stricter Federal regulations to make sure they stringently test these robotic trucks around people. Since companies are trying to save 33% of their shipping costs, make them pay a hefty licensing/insurance premiums to allow AI trucks on the road. It's foreseeable there will be horrific accidents involving these driverless behemoths especially among early adopters.
When these geniuses put over 300,000 drivers out of work and all of us go and file unemployment that could crash the system, it'll be to late to say OOPS forgot about that.
Given how little truck drivers make after expenses and how precarious the work is even without the threat of self-driving trucks, why would anyone want to do this kind of work?
The government should regulate the trucking industry and implement a law that require all driverless trucks to have a human operator on-board for every driverless trucks on the road.
It won't work. as shown by the Uber accident, the human operator loses attentiveness sitting around watching the truck drive itself. Its gets real boring, real fast.
@jefflewis4 - autonomous vehicles will not need anyone watching them. They will be fully autonomous. We are not there yet. It is a progression. Your skepticism is like people saying to the Wright brothers that people will never fly.
@@jacqdanieles You obviously misunderstood my answer. The answer was in reply to the suggestion by 'Moulinyan ' that a law be required for all driverless trucks to have a human operator on board. That I said will not work. Not that driverless trucks will not work.
Airplanes can be flown without pilots and trains can be run without conductors, yet and still operators are required to be on board. I'm stressing this point, because automation and technology is reducing the workforce, while at the same time population is growing.
CC: Andrew Yang
Lots of lot lizards are going to be out a job too.
Robot trucks need loving too.
yep, most of the drivers are lot lizards, you are right:;
Whst is a lizard in thar context?
Being a lot lizards is a real job. Ur momma raised you working as a lot lizard.
Not really
Andrew Yang is the only presidential candidate talking about a solution to trucking job loss, as well as other automation job loss. He is worth a seriously hard look, pull up some of his long form interviews.
What's his solution?
@@TheJonnyEnglish A trucking czar he would appoint to oversee the industry and transition, taxing transport companies and setting aside money for the workers to help them as they get displaced. This is in addition to the Freedom Dividend of $1,000 a month for everyone.
Andrew Yang isn’t a politician he’s very intelligent and a problem solver. It’s not left. It’s not right. It’s forward. Yang2020
His solution is taking our money to give it to people with no driving force. Ive seen the debates he treats it like a game show. No u cannot have 1k a month. Not cutting it? Find a different job.
Can a robot slide tandems open doors, do a good pti? What about roads with poor painted guise lines? Ain’t gonna happen
When people get unemployed by these self driving trucks then they will loot these trucks to survive..
The trucks are smart,
The trailers thou, are still hay wagon stupid.
That's what you have the automated gun turrets for!
The automated trucks are driving infinitely only stopping for gas and unloading where there’s lots of people around. How are you gonna loot a non-stop driving truck?
Frontline needs to put the full documentary on UA-cam. It is VERY important information that needs to be disseminated. It also shows that Andrew Yang, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange are some of the most important voices of this era.
We are truly our own worse enemy smh
Such a TRUTH
@@SmellyUnfortunate007 perhaps but I just wonder what opportunity would open up for the truckers? Many of them all they have been doing is driving I wonder would it be as easy for them to transition into something else.
What you are ignoring is the amount of riots in the streets that occurred during the industrial revolution plus the jobs that the non wealthy had were god awful. They were using Children to go inside machinery to get something out of them unstuck and many children died. Its not gonna be pleasant for the next 2 decades but after that we shall see if we prosper but that’s 20 years of turmoil
Na man we just have to adapt
Part of survival of the fittest
I been trucking since 2003.
I started as a driver. Worked for several companies hauling serval products over the years in several areas of the country.
I now own my own truck and just bought a second truck.
There have been millions of not billions of dollars thrown at this problem, how to get AI trucks on the road.
They haven’t solved it. You know why? They can’t. To many variables.
In the end they will realize u can put an AI truck in some spots to run certain loads. Few and far in between. Must be large roads, little traffic , fee obstacles, perfect weather etc. But for the most part I just can’t see it happening.
Not in Wyoming in the winds and snow, Chicago and New York traffic,
Florida rains etc etc. mountains in the north west in the winter.
This lady you interviewed who said she spent 100k on fuel in a year is saying she traveled roughly 160k thousand miles. If she spent 100k on fuel at 3$ per gallon and got 5 mpg avg. those are rough numbers.
that’s not a trucking industry problem. That’s a problem with the freight they haul.
They haul cheap loads , depend on shops for repairs and eventually go out of business.
I see it every day for years.
There are plenty of people making great money in this business. Great money to me is 6 figures a year.
If your not making money in this business , you need to leave the business and find something you do make money in. Don’t be a fool sitting or driving and making someone else’s pockets full.
Exactly. Who will open & close its trailer doors? Put fuel in it? Maintenance on it? Lower it’s landing gear? Connect the hoses? What happens if the sensors go out in bad weather? Poor visibility? So many obstacles to overcome.
@@GuestUA-camUser In the AI future, it will be illegal to have dirty trucks or cars. Gotta keep those sensors clean.
That's why the Tesla on autopilot crashed in Archer, Florida. The vehicle thought the side of the tractor trailer was a clear blue sky and moved over and was crushed.
Gcal1956 finally an educated response!!! This is not going to take trucking over, just like trains were suppose to take trucking over !
William May many have been hurt ,unfortunately even killed because of this self driving thing.
I love this narrators voice. I'd love him to read me bedtime stories
Boo Boo : A narrator's voice is very important to any documentary. I believe this narrator's name is Bill Lyeman.
Agnus Dei Will Lyman
I play Frontline docs on my tablet while I sleep.
@Boo Boo, agreed, but there are truckers that do this for a living. They don't give a damn what this guys voice sounds like. Clearly you don't drive for a living so it's easy for you lack sensitivity.
@@dannyrand1733 Not following you. I drive truck for a living btw
I drive a 2020 truck with a lot of driving assist features. Do you know how many times going around a bend my truck will sense another vehicle in the lane next to me and start a hard brake? I have to quickly hit the accelerator or the vehicles tailgating me (way too common people) would stack up. The truck will hard brake sometimes from people in the exit lane. Do you know how many times my truck will issue a collision warning when driving in a construction zone? And speaking of construction zones, have you ever seen all the over painted lines? Which will the auto driving think is the correct one? What about poorly paved and poorly painted roads? How about hard snow or rain that covers the road and/or blurs the vehicles sight? How will these trucks handle a 90 degree right turn in a downtown area with mass traffic? How do these trucks get fuel? Would someone be able to hack the system and cause chaos? Will there be times when the system is down? I have no doubt these are some super intelligent people working on these ideas, but I also know that they haven't been in the shit. There are so many variables that happen numerous times a day that someone who hasn't driven a semi has no idea about. Just making it go from point A to point B is a remarkable achievement, but it's also the easiest part of the process.
Tesla cars can't even get around without being on the news about malfunction accidents. Guess what's gonna happen when that happens with 80,000 pounds rolling down the highway. Total destruction and a whole bunch of lawsuits. Won't happen in my lifetime!
Your about the only one here in the realm of reality.
DudleyDawson1 all good points, but they will figure it out.
They're not made for reality, they're made for greed. Some big high tech company will make millions selling these things for a short time, the business will fail and the owners will walk away millionares.
@@mstewie9718 I'm sure they have recruited some truckers to get their input.
I know AI won't fall asleep at the wheel like the truckers around here do all the time. I guess we'll see how well it goes.
Still amazing that Andrew Yang is the only candidate trying to address this very reality. Everyone else has their head stuck in the sand.
Watch Yangs NPR interview where he openly and clearly states in his own words that his proposed policies will NOT work. Glad to see your keeping up.
@@KOMTVcycling I checked him out. Saw his NPR interview, glad he admitted his policies would NOT work.
Silly people believe in yang. 1000 dollars isnt a living wage. Cost of living extremely high.
@@alexfleming6304 ? Elon musk is silly?
@@alexfleming6304 nobody is saying that is a living wage. it's not meant to be. it's meant to be supplemental, take the edge off.
Need for a trucker's Union is more urgent than ever
I’m a union member but honestly that won’t help anything like with us garbagemen they tried fighting certain companies with going to the curroto trucks saying guys would get laid off they can’t stop a company from being more efficient in the long run
No I need to make money running my trucking business
Can't unionize when you get fired for trying to unionize
N.B.A You won't have a trucking business if robot trucks become standard.
Can’t unionize if there are no jobs to unionize
Andrew Yang 2020 time to look him over now thanks
Don't think UBI will work - if everyone gets an increase in income the price of goods will increase accordingly - however for this family it would work- stay home and watch TV making $12,000/ yr X 2 = $24,000 versus working hard and making $22,000 - but what becomes of your soul
@@sns8420 So you wouldn't want to earn more income than 24k ? From your end comment I can tell you would still work and keep your soul ! Remember this must go through congress 1st so even if it is a lower amount it would still help most folks out.
@Melissa H We already have a flying pig in office - anything can happen .
He's a joke
The Seeker could provide reasons why do you think Andrew Yang is a joke? Please be logical and rational with your response
Lets work on automating CEO's!!
@Timothy Garner 😁🤜💥🤛😁
Super CEO's will replace them too, when they're no longer useful
My problem is not going to be the technology that is going to suck. It’s going to be that big corporations will cover it all up.
This is why we need forward thinkers like Andrew Yang!
Oh yeah? What's he say? Just giving everyone a 1000 dollars a month won't do shit, for any of this.
Forward ? you mean backwards thinker. What Yang is proposing (1,000 a month) is what the Romans in the 3rd century tried to do when a huge influx of new slaves created massive unemployment amongst citizens. Business and farms would buy slaves who were cheaper rather than hire citizens. Instead of finding a real solution to the problem Romans gave the unemployed citizens free gain every month. It was seen as one of the factors that lead to the eventual fall of Rome. Substitute automation/robot for slave and, cash for grain, and we have what Yang is proposing.
jefflewis4 do you think it’s logical to use a 3rd century event to draw conclusion to a 21st century problem? I suggest you should look at Universal Basic Income/Freedom dividend beyond the stigma of free (printing) money from the Govt or money for doing nothing. As Yang said this is our Data Check from google, Facebook...including a share of trillion dollar Corporations like Amazon who pays $0 in Federal taxes. UBI/Freedom dividend isn’t guaranteed to solve every problems currently facing America but it is a 21st century solution to a 21st century problem. If I may add Andrew Yang is likely to be the only candidate who can heal or unite the divisiveness of the current state of political despair. AY’s primary focus is Humanity First. Yang2020
@@Vnexpress1203 But that's just it, its not a 21st century problem. This problem has occurred over and over many many times in history. It occurred in the 19th century when companies would hire children as cheap labor and created unemployment amongst adults. It occurred again in the 20th century when cheap overseas workers replaced U.S factory workers. Just substitute, slaves, children, overseas workers, for automation, and its the exact same problem. If you substitute cheap labor for the current labor force, unless a new industry is developed unemployment (or underemployment) is created. Giving people a small amount of money (or grain) just to survive doesn't change that they are still unemployed, still unable to support themselves.
A truck driver is basically a low skilled worker who could earn a middle class wage (just like a factory
worker used to). What is happening is low skilled workers are either being replaced with cheaper foreign workers or by automation. With the low skilled middle class jobs dissappearing those same low skilled workers who used to drive trucks or work in factories now work in Walmart or Starbucks for much lower wages.
If you see the complete 'AI' episode on PBS. There was a chart where they showed up until the 1990's when productivity increased wages would also increase with it. But not anymore productivity is still increasing but wages are decreasing.
A Truck driver in the 1980's made the equivalent of 110k in today's money, today they average about 40-50K. This type of wage decrease is un-sustainable. Its becoming much more difficult for a low skilled worker to make a middle class wage. Giving them 1,000 per month (which by itself doesn't even bring you 1/3 of the way to the poverty line) will not solve this problem.
jefflewis4 I agree with point. Thank you for a very informative response. I understand if we refuse to learn from history it’s doomed to repeat. However, Andrew Yang has said UBI isn’t all problems solver, it’s just a beginning. UBI intends to benefit many different problems currently facing America. I would refer you to Yang’s UA-cam videos where he explains in depth of his policies for better explanation. I believe Yang is the only candidate who will unite all Americans if elected president. I challenge you to give Andrew a listen I promise you will not walk away disappointed. It’s not left. It’s not right. It’s forward.
SOMEONE NEEDS TO SEND THIS VIDEO TO THE YANG CAMPAIGN
$100k on fuel in a year? Maybe they need to check for fuel leaks😂
mike T nah it actually sound about right I go from Ny to Cali and back it’s 2600 k easy
@@OneshotMovement 2600 miles at 7 mpg is about 1150$ at 3$ per gallon. Times that by 50 weeks $60k in fuel.
I never paid over $40k for fuel in a year and I run about 110k miles a year.
If that’s true they gotta be doing something wrong what’s the point then. sounds like your better off working for someone else
Maybe with team drivers
Crazy how Andrew Yang is the only one talking about this, the biggest issue of our time.
The rest are stuck in the 20th century.
There's no way they can simulate all the possible scenarios that happen when testing these vehicles. This is especially with food delivery.
Never say tech is never going to get there. It already has. I can see serious social upheaval coming in the near future.
Minimum basic income will become a necessity. .. or else penury is assured.
Melissa H
Yeah let’s not try to even solve the problem, let’s let things just get Mad Max and may the strongest killerz survive the Thundersome. 😂👍🏼👉🏼🔥🔥🔥🔥
Can a robot slide tandems open doors, do a good pti? What about roads with poor painted guise lines? Ain’t gonna happen
these automated trucks will be monitored by video, similar to drones, the dispatchers will be the operator, they have in cab sliders and scales, most of the jobs will be otr, at first.
Out of work truck drivers will paint the lines.
"Could the rise of AI put truckers' jobs in peril?" *Is water wet?* It's going to devastate truck driving jobs and related jobs like those found at truck stops. With semi-automation I can easily see the US DOT changing the rules to allow drivers to work 12/12 which would keep trucks with two drivers always moving and destroy many driving jobs. We need a plan to help these truck drivers find another occupation and offer something like long-term unemployment payments until they find meaningful work. We could easily see over five million trucking related jobs disappear over the next ten years.
NO, we won't! I work in manufacturing at the enterprise level. I've worked for multi-billion dollar B2B companies and if you think that B2B manufacturing (of which most companies barely having a proper digital marketing campaign) which is severely being behind the digital curve compared to CPG is ready for self-driving trucks in their shipping and receiving to the point where 5 million trucking jobs are going to disappear in the next ten years you REALLY need to change your POV. In the next 50 years yeah that's a possibility but there as so many companies hiring for truckers that industry is not about to be disrupted on that kind of scale. AI in my industry is not there yet.
@@WallTrapMedia Local drivers will be the last to be replaced but that change will come when it costs less to run a self driving truck. I started working on AI back in the '90s when we were just trying to simulate a connection of a few simulated neurons and it's advanced more than I ever thought in my lifetime. In the next day or two Tesla will be unveiling their self driving truck that's squarely targeting at the local sector. I believe within 20 years all non self driving vehicles will be banned from public roads. AI is moving faster than even most in the industry can imagine.
@ROBERT ANDERSON "Less than 1/2 a decade" LOL.
Brian Beeler lol I can’t wait! This will be fun to watch when it snows, rains, gets stupid cold outside like-40 or when they see any kind of bad weather. All shipping will come to a halt over night for days on end until roads are cleaned and trucks can move again.
You guys crack me up with this AI nonsense.
I’ll be road side waiting to pick up these broke down trucks with a tow truck. It will be easy money.
Almost entire year they been running around fake stories like driver Shortage
They been talking about this driver shortage crap for 10 years
Jubilation I’m There's not a driver shortage. There's a shortage of drivers willing to work for no money and be subject to all these regulations.
UA-cam Andrew Yang the only candidate who is talking about AI and has the data!
_Durrr Rich Technocrat said sum wurds_
@@TheJonnyEnglish hmm. dr right there
Putting millions of drivers and truckstop service workers out of a job in a very short amount of time is a guaranteed recipe for disaster the likes of which we haven't seen in a very long time.
They only focus on the truckers themselves since they are the ones directly effected. What they make no mention of is the vast service industry that operates around truckers across the US and how hard they are going to get hit.
This will have a greater impact on Long Haul drivers in the very beginning. Independent drivers. Companies like, Fedex, UPS, Post Office drivers are constantly getting in and out of their vehicles. This won't have an impact on them. But for Long Haul drivers, they drive normally from point A to B. Basically drop the load and return to the domicile.
FedEx sadly is testing out their version of autonomous trucks.
Ouch. I feel for the guy thinking that the tech won't be feasible in the very near future. It's already here.
S K
They need to stop by a Tesla store. Those things drive and park without human assistance. The only hold back are State regulations, that won’t hold long.
@@ThemFuzzyMonsters I drive a Model S, so you're preaching to the choir. But I was thinking the same thing...have they not heard of the Tesla brand?
@@SKtube0
I was thinking of Tesla as a living demonstration of what is to come. It is not going to be joyful for many. Cashiers, bricklayers, delivery services, warehousing, dispatch, all those are going to go away very soon and very quickly.
@@ThemFuzzyMonsters Oh, I thought you were just referring to the brand and the features of their vehicles. Yes, I agree that for many in the workforce today, automation and AI will force the human component to become more and more obsolete in the coming years. It's why I hope my kids will become interested in the STEM fields and will also want to learn multiple languages including writing different forms of code. The days of graduating Magna cum laude, having recommendations, and noted accomplishments are just not enough anymore to secure your own life for the future.
S K
Indeed ... and for them to have one career, in one field, is even less likely than it was for us.
Driverless trucks are definitely coming; however, the question is how fast will it displace most driving jobs. People outside the industry see trucks cruising a straight-a-way on a wide-open interstate and think that's all there is to driving. What about inner-city driving with tight turns and car drivers who could care less about large trucks? What about tricky, tight blind-side docks? What about construction zones, unmarked pavement, cross-merging, inclement weather, tire-blowouts, steep mountain grades, load shifts? What about hazmat, over-dimensional and tanker loads with liquid surge? What about possible vehicle sabotage by jaded former drivers? Overcome those challenges, then deal with legal liability and regulatory hurdles to deal with...and we all know how fast those hurdles get resolved. All that being said, it's a least another 10 years before driverless trucks become commonplace.
No one is going to mention that Tony Stark faked his death to become a truck driver?
Good for Americans that at least Andrew Yang is addressing it. Other countries havent even talked about this
How is it possible that these people do not know that automation is not only right around the corner, it's right here? Even Fox News has covered it. Oh, and if you work in the fast food industry, you're also about to get automated.
i think they know but theyre to stubborn or proud to face the fact that the work they do is so easily replaced
Everyone’s job is being automated. Look around. Even the CNBC anchors jobs is being automated. They threatened to throw water on it! Lol Wall Street! Lol 😂
@@GuestUA-camUser ..... all the studio cameras are run remotely as well.
I’m not a Luddite by any stretch of the imagination but we as a collective whole are finding ourselves in a very dangerous situation.
AI MUST BE CONTROLLED in order to ensure both employment opportunities and to not place ourselves in a situation where government is forced to pay a monthly stipend to the majority of its citizenry.
The majority of people simply do not have the upper tier of intelligence necessary to be computer programmers, coders or robotic repair tech’s.
I’m very happy I’m not any younger than my 53 years.
Society will ultimately need to move towards universal basic income. This is a sore spot with older generations that have the mentality that how hard you work represents your value. If you stop automation/AI through regulation then we fall behind China and watch as they become the sole technological super power. This is the reality we face today as we are about to be forced to completely rethink about capitalism and how we implement it.
Craig Pacella whereas I agree with your assessment and where the country is heading, it’s the change in societal norms that tend to upend the Apple cart for many.
Are you kidding me? Truckers are just another trade going away, tech is great but how do folks earn a living?
What will that self driving truck do when it blows a front steer? It happens.
Listen, I have been working in manufacturing for over 5 years. AI is at risk of putting Truckers' jobs at risk and it will disrupt the industry in the FAR-off future but we are talking about something that is at least 50 years away in terms of that tech being safe and at the end of the day MOST companies will want a human drive for the next 100 years. Once these self-driving trucks start to cause major accidents and the lawsuits start piling up the idea of of self-driving long-haul trucks will be put to bed. There are just TOO many risks to really have something like self-driving trucks operating en masse on our highways over the next 50 years. There are just too many different driving conditions that a self-driving truck can't prepare for unless it's going to be automated to the point like a video game and you have people manning the controls 24/7 and that shit is expensive as well
Sorry, but I am pretty sure the money is behind that it will happen sooner rather than later... look up TuSimple
I want to see this system do flatbed work good luck on that
Robot rain and strap cannon press a botton and it throws the straps over and mag nests will clip together and lock
@@zachsylvestre2373 not that simple bud.
@@billyvest3908 I know I was just coming up with something stupid that a white collar worker would make up😂🤣😂🤣
How about loading and unloading of cars if you are a car hauler?
They will get the immigrants to do cheaper labor securing the load so A.I can pick it
Imagine the pollution caused by 24hr trucks on the road. Let's deal with that before considering anything else. PLEASE
That makes zero sense. If I have goods to haul from A to B, & I do it in 3 days vs 1 day, the pollution is the same.
jacq danieles let me help you understand. A vehicle that runs 24 Hrs a day deterioration rate is faster than one that cools off OCCASIONALLY. A DETERIORATED VEHICLE / TRUCK PRODUCES MORE POLLUTION THAN ONE LESS DETERIORATED.
That's one simple example, there are many more, but I'm concerned that if my original comment didn't make sense to you on such a simple level as the example I just provided, a more technical explanation(s) would overwhelm your comprehension capacity and would be a waste of my time typing it here for you.
@TRUMP SAID - lol. Nice try. Add more ignorance to an already ignorant comment.
Trucks don't "deteriorate" if they run longer. And in any case, the operators will not do something to *ruin their investment.* If the vehicle needs to be cooled, that will be factored in. You can run it for 8 hours, cool it for 1, in cycles.
And eventually, most of these self-driving trucks will be *electric.*
jacq danieles every man made object deteriorates by use. pollution includes rubber from tires that heat up under use and extended/prolonged use of a rubber tire causes faster deterioration than that of a tire that is allowed to cool off. It's simple, now talk to the hand if you think because a vehicle is electric the tires don't pollute the environment. WOW
@@jacqdanieles , these vehicles will be electric:;
So if they replace truckers, cashiers, lawyers etc, with AI to make cheaper goods... who is going to be left to buy all those goods to fill the trucks ?
Seems like a dead end
No one because we all be Looting to survive lol
Yang2020
Yang is part of the problem those silicon valley vultures are his supporters and friends.
Justin D How would you stop AI and automation?
Justin D wrong. Think Harder 😂
@@HardKore5250 - I don't think we need to stop it, we just have to start electing politicians who are at least aware of it and planning ahead.
@@Justin.D.DC4L - You're right, but probably for the wrong reasons. We're all part of the problem. Capitalism wants to lower costs, and we all want cheaper crap. Unless you made your phone with bamboo and mud, I'm pretty sure you're just as much part of the problem as anyone else.
I wanna see self driving trucks drive through canada's winters bud
She makes $50,000
He makes $120,000
After his operating expenses they have $20,000 left.
That dude should stay home!! They’d have $30,000 more and have less problems.
ROBERT ANDERSON
LOL ... look, the new strategy is based on knowing when to pull-out ... 🤷🏻♂️
You probably talk about your own situation when referring to owner operator finances, you not doing it right
I’m company & make more than that.
Aliman Telejehin
Not my situation at all.
You can look at it this way too:
Earnings: $120,000
Expenditures: $150,000
Net loss: -$30,000
Every minute that guy is on the road, they are loosing money. She covers that loss.
I’m o/o. She is lying about earnings/costs. Describes her hubby as hard working/skilled. Something wrong with the picture.
This is not addressing safety no way will every be safe for a self driving truck to travel the roads of this country
you are clueless. The human being is the most un-safe of all. Humans is what cause accidents. AI being the driver seat is going to be safer, just wait and see. And btw:how would know. You are probably against technology and anything that is new or different.
I wonder what Jimmy Hoffa would have thought of this.
Spoken word was replaced by print, print by radio, radio by movies, movies by television, TV by internet.
Everything gets replaced by something else, in time.
@Marvin Bennett
Okay, then define "supplemented" in this case then, please.
A human driver gets charged with murder in the event of an accidental death caused by their negligence. The makers of automated trucks should be held to the same exact standards.
@@nicewknd Are you asking how many? If so I have not researched an exact # but it does happen often. The DOT take on it is you are a trained proffesional ( intrestingly enough classified as unskilled labor, another story in itself) as a trained professional it is our duty to do everything humanly possible to avoid accidents at all cost, duh should be. a no brainer, hence since it requires specific training the penalties are much higher in the event of accidents. A doctor on the other hand who has the benefits of malpractice insurance, controlled working conditions, and support staff sill kill more people each year than truckers but they have a license to kill and their insurance covers it.
Vote for Andrew Yang!
Technology companies have for some reason declared war not only on taxi drivers but now truck drivers. I drive for a living, what have I done to deserve this, what have WE done to deserve this?
That poor lady got scammed so hard. Made 150k in a year but expenses brought that down to 22k.
Should put all the freight on trains and then only use truck drivers for local work. Then they could get home every night.
Some of us drive trucks to get away from home!
could this be a longer documentary?
How about with driver people like these could run more than 1 truck.The 1 owner operater could run his own driverless convoy.
the what ifs? mechanical failures, flats blow outs re fueling? software glitches etc. you cant program reality. its beyond our control. im getting the terminator, corporation, evil death vibe.
Technology should be help to people, not compete with them. Having to do less jobs is a good thing, the problem is Capitalism.
Yup
The first part will be intercity between distribution yards on the edge of the urban areas. Initially it will be 1 driver with 2 or 3 trucks in an follow me convoy but later it will be fully autonomous. The local loop will probably be human for now...
teslas still get into accidents and I'm uncomfortable with a 30,000 pound truck losing control and killing six because it would go through everyone
Why should these companies be allowed to monopolize the shipping industry? Why can’t truckers by the the trucks like airlines by airplanes?
Deen Bloger - Yeah but, Uber didn’t stop people from buying cars and force them to only use Uber cars. This is clearly an antitrust issue. If Boeing and Airbus stopped selling planes to airlines and force people to fly on their pilotless planes (autopilot), I don’t think this would even be a discussion. I don’t have a problem with the technology, I have a big problem with monopolistic business practices.
Not just the Truck Drivers but also the workers at the rest stops and soon the wear houses are next. All the places that every day Americans work are ALL AT RISK.
Domino effect...snowballing
Lol at the "drivers are making 4k per month", regular drivers are making 8-10k.
How about Traffic Signal Light, improvements. Traffic Intersections, are the cause of grid-lock! (On the Highways.)
Hype. They’ve been saying this for years and nothing. And let’s just say hypothetically this technology does take off. Why root for it? It will displace millions. It might be someone else today but it could be you tomorrow
Sure, what does a 20 something person know about the horrific problems that can occur in a truck without a driver?
There are so many situations that take a quick thinking human to avoid an accident! Machines don't have intuition or lifelong driving experience!
You need to educate yourself about the capabilities & potential of Artificial Intelligence.
So who’s gonna pay our bills and help take care of our family’s? When these computers take over
The mega corps with mega profits
Lies you can easily make 100k working as a local driver for Sysco foods. Full medical included, union jobs are the way to go.
Ivonne Barrientos agreed alot of DISINFORMATION here,they said truckers make 40k/year seems like propaganda to me.
Really at sysco foods?
Yea u can make 100k at sysco foods. UPS/FEDEX local drivers making that a year. I'm OTR and there's money to he mad in trucking
What about truckers like me who do flatbed how’s the robots going to strap, chain and tarp the load people who think this automation is a decade away are not truck drivers we know it’s further away if at all possible these trucks are not just a larger version of a car I see a major problem in urban environments
Roger Sanchez they will just hire people to load it on and the truck will drive itself.
I drive a truck been driving for 5 years and I'll tell you. I live out of my truck. I Go home every 3 monthes and after taxes made 44k , last year .life on the road is expansive truck stop are over priced.
Yes the truck stops are fucking expensive. Which is why i dont even stay out on the road 3-6 weeks at a time anymore. If i pack my own food...im going to get tired of it eventually and go back to eating at the truck stops again. Now i only spend up to 10 days out and 3-4 days home. Im done killing myself out there
Getting rid of the worst bunch of drivers on the road will be refreshing. I for one am looking forward very much to all truckers being off the road.
if you sitting in your own truck right now in 10 years you will be 10 years older and not able to switch to another career No one would want to hire an Old guy maybe (walmart door greeter) You don't have a pension plan ..18 year old will take that job for 1.50$ over minimum wage.. What are you going to do? think about it..
"Amazon Klaus" has to Save & Make a few dollarz anywhere along the supply chain.
it is sad that the mainstream media and politicians don't talk about it, keep the American in the dark
What will all the serial killers do when this happens?
there are fully autonomous mine sites, factories, warehouses, and, soon other industries will be more lucrative as they have fewer workers, including the transport industries; as less workers equals higher profits, machines do not have unions. Senior management and bosses drive full automation - as they gain the most from higher profits.
The software engineer get a kick from developing the industry and payments, and likely they will have a job for the near future.
But those put out of work do not get the trickle down.
Eventually who will have the spare cash to buy the products made by machines, AI?
Brokers leeching off the trucking industry now these nerds are trying to take over with their gadgets.
So how is it that a Tesla driver in a 4,000lbs vehicle gets arrested for reckless driving while sleeping behind the wheel in autonomous mode, but a driverless 80,000lbs vehicle on a interstate highway is allowed? Answer is greed.
That may work with trains.....not with trucks. Too many variables that can go wrong.
The technology works for trains, but not the economics. Eliminating the driver on a train carrying tons of freight over long distances. or a commuter train carrying 1,000 passengers is so minuscule its just not worth the expense to upgrade the entire rail system to support it. It only works for trains for short slow moving rail systems. Like at airports, or some light rail lines.
Sounds like life will be better for these people and all truck drivers when they retrain to do something else.
Yes yeah like robbing shooting and stealing and looting 😮
Robots at walmart, robots in trucks, robots in mcdonalds, robots on the assembly line, robots cooking.
Mike Woods goes to show how lazy we became/ becoming 🤦♀️
an,an , robot sex, I seen it, an those robot lizards are hot, I can't wait to get one':
Neil and Binky bought me here!!!
Unions ...
Deregulation .. Truckers deserve to make a decent living and live with dignity. As with so many things it is not possible to simply sideline an employment base without pain suffering and strife. I hoped take a long hard look at how we want to impact segments of our society.
Peace
Up here in Canada The federal government will be putting federal bureaucrat in each of the trucks to make sure it works properly. Course the person will be paid triple what a driver would normally get.
Automation and AI will destroy the majority of human jobs. People best wake up or get rolled over.
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If that engineer brings trucks are gonna drive 24/7 without a person he’s living in a bubble. Who’s gonna put fuel in the truck when needed ? Who’s gonna make sure a load is secure or a strap didn’t break ? Who’s gonna call in when the truck breaks down ? Who’s gonna stop threw a check point for inspection ? You still need a person in the cab for all those things.
This will never happen, point blank....period.
Did you NOT watch the video? There are already companies in the southwest that have started using automated trucks in real world scenarios, sucessfully making deliveries. The balls already rolling, and it ain't gonna stop, friend.
@@gillz107 Let me be more clear, these automated trucks will never put myself or other drivers out of work. These things will NOT work in everyday scenarios, other than very tightly controlled exit only stuff. They WON'T work in tight situations, and various other off handed things that will make automation useless. Certain things just can't be done consistently by computers. This is one of them.
@@Charlesbjtown You can't underestimate how FAST technology improves itself over time. Yeah, there are some aspects of trucking that AI can't be able to do successfully deal with like changing weather conditions and ESPECIALLY dealing with other human drivers on the road being unpredictable.
But you have to keep this in mind when thinking about the progress of getting AI trucks on the road: Who benefits from having AI trucks on the roads? trucking mega carriers and the majority of their customers they deliver to. When you have those two factors working together to get this stuff rolling, they'll work nonstop on fixing the errors that the automated trucks are dealing with until it's nearly perfected. And that's why I say that this paradigm shift in the trucking industry will happen WAY sooner than you think.
gillz107 an overly colorful extra long nothing burger paragraph ,typical of a guy who never drove a truck and doesn't know what hes rambling about.
@@nasirabdullatif Well enlighten us, oh super trucker, with your VAST and extensive knowledge on the subject of trucking, instead of just chiding someone else's comment and not adding anything of worth to the topic at hand.
Could the Rise of AI Put Truckers' Jobs in Peril? Just have Microsoft design it. Crash will take on at least 2 meanings.
People this is not an if or when.......this is about the NOW! Andrew Yang has been telling you what is happening. What other candidate is prepared to handle this reality?
It's not just trucking; it's any job that could be replicated with a few equations. From data entry to brain surgery, all those jobs are at risk of being outsourced to AI. Even though, the bulk of the "damage" is still a few decades away, it would be a good idea to start educating people on possible solutions so they can guide their children the best way to deal with it when it hits them. In case it is not clear. We the adults need to work our a$$e$ off to help secure the future of our children.
From Truckers to Cashiers automation is taking over.
I’ve been driving otr for six years. About the best they can do is drive from exit to exit just like they are doing now. They will takeout some jobs on the dry van side but their are certain segments of freight that are simply too risky or too sensitive to hook behind an automated truck. I would like to know what rate these guys operating the self driving trucks are getting?
You gonna see truck drivers blockading highways and widespread protest if this happens.
That's what the rocket launchers are for!
Its funny how I'm watching this in 2024 and how AI technology has advanced so much. The comments are quite interesting.
Time to learn how to write software code, or vote for Andrew Yang! Your own choice.
How does a 19 Y/O own a huge logistics corporation?
In gta5
These people make trucking look awful. Truth is, at any point right now I can make around 100k a year and more, if I wanted to and be home every night. That's more money than most people I know that went to college. As far as AI goes, there's a HUGE difference between running the interstate and city driving, snow, ice, ect. There's so many variables. I think inevitably this will be more if a symbiotic relationship between technology and humans in this industry for the foreseeable future. That's my opinion.
There needs to be stricter Federal regulations to make sure they stringently test these robotic trucks around people. Since companies are trying to save 33% of their shipping costs, make them pay a hefty licensing/insurance premiums to allow AI trucks on the road. It's foreseeable there will be horrific accidents involving these driverless behemoths especially among early adopters.
Will be many deaths and companies responsible for making and running them will never be held accountable because the money they bring in tax revenue
I want to see how they tie down 40000 lbs of fram equipment
Robots, check out Boston dynamic on UA-cam
When these geniuses put over 300,000 drivers out of work and all of us go and file unemployment that could crash the system, it'll be to late to say OOPS forgot about that.
Given how little truck drivers make after expenses and how precarious the work is even without the threat of self-driving trucks, why would anyone want to do this kind of work?
Is that why most self made millionaires in America are owner operators?
The government should regulate the trucking industry and implement a law that require all driverless trucks to have a human operator on-board for every driverless trucks on the road.
Why? AI will be *safer* than human operators. Robots & AI already run factories with minimal human input.
It won't work. as shown by the Uber accident, the human operator loses attentiveness sitting around watching the truck drive itself. Its gets real boring, real fast.
@jefflewis4 - autonomous vehicles will not need anyone watching them. They will be fully autonomous. We are not there yet. It is a progression.
Your skepticism is like people saying to the Wright brothers that people will never fly.
@@jacqdanieles You obviously misunderstood my answer. The answer was in reply to the suggestion by 'Moulinyan
' that a law be required for all driverless trucks to have a human operator on board. That I said will not work. Not that driverless trucks will not work.
Airplanes can be flown without pilots and trains can be run without conductors, yet and still operators are required to be on board. I'm stressing this point, because automation and technology is reducing the workforce, while at the same time population is growing.
Technically not because most truckers own there own trucks
And the consumer won’t see any of those saving lol.