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#237 – Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream

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Is It Possible to Automate Truck Drivers?

Uber is an interesting example of what could happen if we had self driving trucks or a self driving cars, right? There's some important things happening right now with the remaining good jobs. What you're really paying for when you get a good truck driver is those kind of local skills of like backing and congested traffic. They don't look at their phone. I mean, they take the job seriously and they're safe. So that lowers the bar of entry into a skill.

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