They dont get a second chance in most cases
I had an argument like this one time with someone who was a big proponent or small mind blown with the concept of electric cars
Like, you're not getting an eletric semi
You dont need one
Not till battery tech improves
The battery for that wouldn't be worth the energy and time cost for the sheer amount of torque you'd need
Like he was arguing that the whole of the trucking industry should die to cease pollution
Electric engines have better torque than conbustion
Its why teslas utterly spank lambos in drag races
The problem being you dont have the battery tech to operate an electric motor of that size
Not for the range needed for long haul trucks
You go for twelve hours, you need 20 hours to recharge instead of ten minutes at the gas station
Not really
And of course, you'd need the infrastructure to put out that much electricity for truck consumption
The supercharger stations can refill your battery in 20 minutes
Guarantee those would b everywhere
As for electricity
Nuclear and geothermal
Not to mention you save power and weight by not having a cab on the automated truck
Whenever service goes down; there is always more place for people in infrastructure, you could be the guy who helps set up those superchargers, they won't set up themselves.
Indeed
But that doesnt fully replace jobs lost by driving
Its the most common job in the country
We are actually short a couple hundred thousand
???????
Thats part of what spurs on automation
So there isn't even a risk it's just addition to what you already have
How do you mean
You cannot possible tell me you're afraid of jerb autmation when your industry is facing a shortage of drivers
Thats precisely why
Because a shortage that isnt being filled increases the veracity of automation
If no one WANTS to do the job
You're afraid that you won't be able to leverage your exclusivity for further profit is why
Easiest thing to do is replace them with machines
Its simple supply and demands
The invention of the carbine has not stopped illegal immigration
Supply is short which makes demand high
Hence why I was paid to get my cdl rather than having to pay for it
However if you introduce automated trucks that are objectively better than their human counterparts demands falls into the dirt
Objectively better is oversimplifying it.
