The Biden administration wants to achieve climate and safety with driverless trucks. Why not freight trains?
The freight rail industry has long settled staffing decisions at the bargaining table. It has pursued autonomous technologies for some time, adding staff as needed to support trips in inclement weather and special circumstances. However the Biden Administration, driven in part by major rail unions, would derail the progress to autonomy by mandating the number of workers on a train.
One key industrial difference between trucks and cars is that the former is unionized and hence can exert political power. The Teamsters which represent 1.4 million truck drivers have succeeded to slow progress on self-driving trucks on the argument ofHowever demographic trends are stacked against traditional trucking. As the Wall Street Journal reports, generational retirement and the pandemic has created a historic shortage of 80,000 drivers.
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