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23 May ’15 - 10:59 am
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Some interesting points

The first road-legal autonomous truck made a splashy debut earlier this month. The Freightliner Inspiration Truck is shiny and new, but it will not be good for everyone. Autonomous trucks will destroy jobs, Scott Santens points out at Medium, killing the truck stop as we know it.

Even if you reserve no particular nostalgia for truck stops, the effects will be devastating for local economics. Autonomous trucks will obviously replace drivers, an estimated 3.5 million of them, but they will make the business that cater to drivers obsolete, too. Santens writes:

Those 3.5 million truck drivers driving all over the country stop regularly to eat, drink, rest, and sleep. Entire businesses have been built around serving their wants and needs. Think restaurants and motels as just two examples. So now we’re talking about millions more whose employment depends on the employment of truck drivers. But we still can’t even stop there.

Those working in these restaurants and motels along truck-driving routes are also consumers within their own local economies. Think about what a server spends her paycheck and tips on in her own community, and what a motel maid spends from her earnings into the same community. That spending creates other paychecks in turn. So now we’re not only talking about millions more who depend on those who depend on truck drivers, but we’re also talking about entire small town communities full of people who depend on all of the above in more rural areas. With any amount of reduced consumer spending, these local economies will shrink.
But autonomous trucks have obvious benefits, too. Trucking is a decently paid job but also a dangerous one. It takes truckers far from their families for long stretches of time. It encourages poor lifestyle habits. There are over 300,000 crashes involving heavy trucks every year.

Autonomous trucks will almost inevitably start taking over our roads, but it is worth pausing to consider their unintended effects. A few weeks ago, Martin Ford, author of Rise of Robots, pointed out the ripple effects of autonomous cars in Gizmodo. Not everyone will be a winner in the self-driving future.

http://gizmodo.com/s.....1705921308

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pretty sure they were against the trains because horse drivers would lose their jobs

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in this country we need more jobs, not less. 

http://newsexaminer......by-robots/

New McDonald’s In Phoenix Run Entirely By Robots

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  did you know that they offer tax breaks to companies who send American jobs overseas?

  http://thehill.com/b.....utsourcing

  Currently, U.S. companies can deduct from their corporate taxes some expenses of moving facilities overseas. Democrats said 2.4 million jobs have been outsourced in the past 10 years.

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they offer programs to employers to bring in foreign workers to take American jobs.

http://www.dol.gov/c.....orkers.htm

 Foreign labor certification programs permit U.S. employers to hire foreign workers on a temporary or permanent basis to fill jobs essential to the U.S. economy. These programs are generally designed to ensure that the admission of foreign workers into the United States on a permanent or temporary basis will not adversely affect the job opportunities, wages, and working conditions of U.S. workers.

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Labor Participation Rate Drops To 36 Year Low; Record 92.6 Million Americans Not In Labor Force

 

http://www.zerohedge.....t-labor-fo

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sending jobs overseas and bringing foreign workers in is absolutely not the same as technological evolution

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