Self-driving trucks will be job-killers.

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108. "Anticipation" is basically programming, be it in a human brain or a silicon one.

Here's a link you might like, from an Autodesk blog on something they call "Reality Computing" and a quote from it on self-driving vehicles:

At CES 2015, NVIDIA—a company that a lot of people associate with gaming technology but is also a leading developer of autonomous automotive platforms—demonstrated its new Drive PX and DriveCX computers that enable self-driving cars.

The Drive PX processes data from a range of sensors such as laser, radar, or cameras that capture and monitor the environment around the car. It then uses that live data combined with very sophisticated feature recognition technology it calls ‘deep neural learning’ to dynamically recognize objects around the car including other vehicles, street signs, road works, pedestrians, and so on. The Drive CX is the digital cockpit computer—in charge of speech processing, high-resolution digital instrument display, navigation, and infotainment graphics.

One thing I know I've read elsewhere is the concept that the cars will communicate with each other. That way, you have an entire mass of vehicles that know the lay of the road, as well as the location of the vehicles that aren't self-driving. My educated guess is that the software will take that kind of thing into account and have the vehicles drive accordingly, or in anticipation of any number of unsafe driving actions.

And really, if you think about it, every kind of unsafe form of driving is a finite number and can be easily programmed for the software to anticipate. As for animals, we could probably get our state governments to install extra sensors in areas where they put up the various animal-crossing signs that would then communicate with the vehicles. Problem not necessarily solved, just additional precautions taken.