Dude, where’s my stuff
> For all the clients that have asked me about the political and economic problems associated with the rise of autonomous vehicles and more unemployed truckers, I keep telling them they’ve got it backwards: the US has had a trucker shortage for the last few years, and it’s projected to get worse.<p>In addition to the need to point out that "shortage" just means "I don't want to pay market rate", a shortage of truck drivers does <i>not</i> negate the concern of automation causing mass unemployment of truckers.<p>The concern is that the 450,000 truckers will lose their jobs. "We want to have <i>500,000</i> truckers who would lose their jobs" doesn't addresses that issue.<p>To be clear, I'm still very much in favor of automation, but people aren't "getting it backwards" here. These are two different problems.