And that’s just long haul trucks. Once that technology is proven it will take over short haul, cabs, buses, trains, and boats.
I don’t know about turning our back on any model. But we need to comprehend how we expect people to function in a world that can produce a very high standard of living for every one with only enough jobs for maybe 25% of the population.
Exactly. And if we didn’t have pressures from the third world labor markets, I think free labor markets in this country might reallocate the labor into other roles fast enough to keep us above 25%. But we are already at 49%, so 25% and even lower is very believable.
It’ll take over pizza deliveries, grocery deliveries, etc. You can build light weigh, very fuel efficient driverless vehicles for small deliveries. We’ll can have the world delivered cheaply to our doorstep. Which is good, because the world will be at our door asking for a handout.