Automation ia threatening millions of jobs sooner than most seem williing to admit.

[Miguelito Loveless]

16. This will be allowed until the first, inevitable accident

which, whether it is the AI's fault or not, will result in gov't agencies jumping back from the tech like scalded cats. There are MASSIVE legal hurdles that must be addressed before there can be the massive elimination of human drivers. I foresee a decade of "safety drivers" being required before they are eliminated. Such people will probably cause more accidents than they will prevent.

I am VERY pro-tech, own an EV, and am completely in favor of the change over to autonomy. I just don't see it happening on the time scale folks are predicting. Long haul on the interstate highways is one thing, but the massive amount of work occurs on twisty-turny secondary roads in very poor condition, which AI cannot handle any time soon.

Coal mining was automated, but it took decades to reduce the work force to its current level. The loss of coal jobs is accelerating in the last decade, but that is mostly driven by the closing of mines due to the low price of methane, not automation.

People in doomed jobs must either retrain, be paid off, or be allowed to die off, rather literally I am afraid. It all depends on the next national election. The next election relies on voters who hold these jobs voting in their own self-interest for once, rather than against it, as they have done in the last century.

I am not sanguine these people will change their views, even with their own lives at stake, as they have never done so in the past. I have family on my father's side from WV, and on my wife's from KY. Both overwhelmingly support the people who will kill them rather than those who would save them.