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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Don't let luddite politicking muddy the issues: robotrucks are no danger to the labor market and won't be for a couple genetations. They will however be good for the economy, the standard of living, and will create a few thousand safe and high paying jobs for the remote monitors. On top of the truck factory workers.
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Indeed. I'd liken it to the replacement of assembly-line workers by robots in car assembly plants. The result is much better-built cars, and the creation of highly-paid jobs to oversee those robots (at the expense of production-line jobs, certainly). You can't fight technological change. Just as blacksmiths had to become car mechanics in the early 20th-century, so truck drivers will need to re-skill in the 21st century.