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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is This Really a Good Idea?

I first heard about the idea of this kind of automation in like 2011, I guess it was with Peloton. And we ended up on a panel together because I was thinking about how we got the best return on investment for fuel efficient technologies. So when I studied the drivers, you had this like complete difference in the driving tasks and they were not paid to do that task. In some places, some places can't handle these doubles, right? They can't handle all that much weight on them at one time.

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