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.

  • queermunist she/her
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    169 months ago

    Tractors aren’t traffic. That’s clearly very different.

    Student driver teachers, meanwhile, are teaching. That’s more than simply watching for mistakes, which would be an inhumanly boring job that I honestly don’t think anyone could do.

    • @[email protected]
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      89 months ago

      Exactly. And student drivers are only active for like 20-30 min at a time. A truck would be active for hours at a time.

      Instead of trying to build autonomous trucks, we should be building out rail and move more stuff and people that way.

    • terrrmus
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      09 months ago

      Security guards watch empty parking lots/tvs all night long.

      • queermunist she/her
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        19 months ago

        Yeah, but they don’t need to react within seconds when there is a problem. They can zone out and nothing bad will happen.

        A driver-operator needs to be hyper vigilant at all times and react within seconds to any problems because at any moment the software could fuck up and kill someone.