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Gari_305 OP t1_issuejg wrote

From the Article

>Self-driving truck startup Kodiak Robotics said that it has begun a pilot program with IKEA in Texas.
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>A semitruck equipped with Kodiak’s autonomous driving system is making daily delivery runs from an IKEA warehouse near Houston to a store close to Dallas, roughly 300 miles away.
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>The trucks have human safety drivers on board, but they’re being driven by Kodiak’s autonomous-driving system.

Since we're about to enter a new economic downturn are we going to see more of these self driving systems and robots come into the labor market?

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AdmiralKurita t1_isulk6u wrote

>Since we're about to enter a new economic downturn are we going to see more of these self driving systems and robots come into the labor market?

Probably not. The article did not even make the bold calm that the pilot program will feature a fully driverless truck with no safety driver.

Driving is so hard that this will take many decades to roll out. We are not even close to solving the problem of driving a car.

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