An interesting piece - Self-driving trucks: what's the
future for America's 3.5 million truckers?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/17/self-driving-trucks-impact-on-drivers-jobs-us
“Driverless trucks
will be safer and cheaper than their human-controlled counterparts, but that
doesn’t mean America’s 3.5 million professional truck drivers are giving up to
the machines without a fight.
Across the US,
truckers collectively haul more than 10bn tons of freight each year, but it’s a
tough job – the hours are long and lonely, the pay is low and the lifestyle is
sedentary. In many ways it’s a job ripe for disruption; robots v truckers.”