Self Driving Trucks
topic on 5 shows · 6 statements across 6 episodes
Lenny's Podcast 
Sourcery 
the MAD Podcast 
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6 statements about Self Driving Trucks, every show
Younis: Waymo closed trucking because old AV architectures required discrete systems
“Waymo used to be in self-driving trucks, and then they closed that team down because the old way of building self-driving, those are two almost discrete systems. Different sensor placement, you know, different vehicle type was enough To make it actually just d…”
Younis: AI's biggest impact will be farming, mining, and trucks
“Yes, I think the real impact of AI in the next. Five to 10 years really is going to be in farming, in mining, in construction, in self-driving trucks. That's where you're going to have a real impact.”
Smith: Trucker employment grew a decade after self-driving job loss forecasts
“There were two stories in the same year about truckers being mass unemployed by, you know, self-driving trucks, and then 10 years later, there's a trucker shortage, and the number of truckers we hire is higher than ever.”
Volpi: Self-driving trucks will operate on freeways within 18 months
“And if you ask me, like, for those use cases, I think you're going to see self-driving trucks on freeways within the next 18 months.”
VanDevender: Autonomous trucks will improve delivery but erode rural wealth distribution
“So if you replace the trucks with self-driving trucks, you end up with a much better goods distribution system, which is positive, but the trucking system is a much worse wealth distribution system.”
Ocko: Self-driving trucks could displace 4 million US workers
“So with self-driving trucks, they're you're talking about potentially vastly reducing, if not completely disemploying, I guess to coin a term, three or four million of the last non-college educated middle class people in the United States, and quite a large si…”