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Non-Tech : Trends Worth Watching
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From: Sam4/26/2016 8:01:55 PM
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The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automate millions of jobs
Posted 23 hours ago by Ryan Petersen ( @typesfast)

A convoy of self-driving trucks recently drove across Europe and arrived at the Port of Rotterdam. No technology will automateaway more jobs — or drive more economic efficiency — than the driverless truck.

Shipping a full truckload from L.A. to New York costs around $4,500 today, with labor representing 75 percent of that cost. But those labor savings aren’t the only gains to be had from the adoption of driverlesstrucks.

Where drivers are restricted by law from driving more than 11 hours per day without taking an 8-hour break, a driverlesstruck can drive nearly 24 hours per day. That means the technology would effectively double the output of the U.S. transportation network at 25 percent of the cost.

And the savings become even more significant when you account for fuel efficiency gains. The optimal cruising speed from a fuel efficiency standpoint is around 45 miles per hour, whereas truckers who are paid by the mile drive much faster. Further fuel efficiencies will be had as the self-driving fleets adopt platooning technologies, like those from Peloton Technology, allowing trucks to draft behind one another in highway trains.

Trucking represents a considerable portion of the cost of all the goods we buy, so consumers everywhere will experience this change as lower prices and higher standards of living.

[My note: Everyone except for truck drivers and their families and the people who get the ripple effect of their spending, which constitutes a lot of people. But not to worry--truck drivers can all be trained to be programmers or something.]

more at the link
techcrunch.com
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