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Related: About this forumWe Chased Driverless Trucks In Texas. What We Saw Will Scare You. - More Perfect Union
Truck driving used to be a solid middle-class job. Not anymore. Driverless trucks just hit the highway in Texas. Its displacing truck drivers. And truckers warn, your job could be next.
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We Chased Driverless Trucks In Texas. What We Saw Will Scare You. - More Perfect Union (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Wednesday
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Tom Dyer
(169 posts)1. The urgent need
to give more money to millionaires and billionaires at the expense of everything.
Dave Bowman
(5,212 posts)2. I would steer clear of these things, that technology is way too young and a catastrophe is bound to happen sooner rather
than later.
cab67
(3,360 posts)5. People will be killed.
Maybe even children.
Collisions between semis and passenger cars are more likely to end badly for anyone in the passenger car. I would rather have a trained professional behind the wheel of a semi.
Blue Owl
(56,332 posts)3. What could go wrong?

UpInArms
(52,825 posts)4. That works until
The truck needs gas (or diesel)
Who pumps it for no one with no money?