As a rule, they speak about robots in production in connection with people whom they deprive of this work. However, in California, a different situation: in the state where the Silicon Valley and Hollywood is located, young people are not eager to work as truckers, although here and there you can earn $ 54 per hour for a wheel. There, stand-alone trucks are waiting for both salvation. At the end of 2016, the United States did not have more than 36,000 long-distance truckers. The lion's share is in California - the most economically developed state of the country. By 2026, while maintaining the current trend, the deficit will reach 174 thousand. "For this area, automation - and especially autonomous cars - God's blessing," writes Motherboard. Representatives of transport companies are sure that it's not about money. Now, in jobs that partially subsidize California - for example, delivering mail or servicing important construction projects - a truck driver can earn $ 54 per hour. "You can cover them with all the money in the world. Young people simply do not want to do this, "says Joe Raskovach, a representative of the Western States Trucking. "Some of our members pray to send them drivers," he says.. The average age of an American long-distance truck is now 49-52 years. At the same time on the way to the emergence of unmanned trucks on real roads there are not only technological obstacles. The influential trade union, which represents many truckers, has achieved exclusion from the SELF DRIVE Act of trucks. The reasons for unemployment outweighed this time even the assurances that roads will become safer. (This, however, is believed by a few ordinary Americans).

Original article: Autonomous tractors will eliminate the shortage of truckers in the US.