A new self-driving system for trucks could replace about 90% of human driving in US long-haul trucking, the equivalent of roughly 500 000 jobs.
The US driver shortage is so bad that American trucking companies are trying to import drivers to ease what has become one of the most acute bottlenecks of the supply chain crisis
Autonomous driving engineers are squarely focused on long-haul freight, the interstate runs with almost no complexity save for a slow curve or an E-ZPass lane. As such, those routes are some of the simpler challenges on the self-driving spectrum. "When we talked to truck drivers, literally every one said, 'Yeah, this part of the job can be automated'," explained Aniruddh Mohan, a PhD candidate in engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University and a co-author of the study."We thought they would be a bit more dubious."
"It is happening already, but in a fairly limited way," said Parth Vaishnav, a climate and energy assistant professor at Michigan and co-author of the study. There are about 3.3 million truck drivers in America, though many don’t stay in the trade long. The long-haul jobs, in particular, are some of the worst. Not only are they protracted and tedious, but they are among the lowest-paid gigs.
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