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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill to require human drivers on board self-driving trucks, a measure that union leaders and truck drivers said would save hundreds of thousands of jobs in the state.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Companies will put the staff back in the trucks when it becomes apparent how easy it is to stop them and steal everything from the back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Nobody is stopping trucks on the interstate. You could easily have one human minder escort 12-15 trucks outbound truck and a minder escort inbound trucks and spend most of the time on the interstate. Instead of a dozen drivers x 3 days you could use 1-4 hours of human labor total.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Imagine a system were one driver could transport hundreds of trucks worth of cargo at once on preset routes. What an invention that would be...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Would be easier if set on its own dedicated track.

Something like... a slightly slower Hyperloop! At those speeds, the "pods" wouldn't need to run in a pressurized tube. I'll name it "OKLoop".

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