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kleinbl00  ·  2597 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: End of the Road: Will automation put an end to the American Trucker?

We can only hope.

Speaking as a motorcyclist, you lose all empathy for Jeff Baxter and his ilk once you've had an 80,000lb big rig spend 300 miles trying to kill you.

    “That big old rig could blow sky-high, slam into a school. It needs a human being. There isn’t a machine that can equal a human being,” he says. “Artificial intelligence can be hacked ... Who is ready for that? I wouldn’t want my family going down the road next to a truck that’s computer-operated.”

The computer doesn't give a fuck that I'm on a Kawasaki instead of a Harley. Go computer.