I wouldn&#x27;t blast you, this has been our running office conversation for several months, usually brought up by a new article on automation.<p>We&#x27;re all doing whatever the terrified version of munching popcorn is at the prospect of what will happen when the last accessible, no-education-required job that can earn a livable income, i.e. truck driving, can be done by robots. Unlike most jobs done by people with few skills, like burger flipping, the vast majority of people don&#x27;t want humans actually doing them anymore, so the costs will be absorbed quicker by the shipping companies. Plus the cost of human drivers is high, things like insurance, benefits, 401k, etc. all could be used to replace them all with autonomous trucks.<p>Then you have an entire infrastructure that grew up around trucks, the truck stop (possibly the most American thing that can fit inside one building), all the highway side motels, on and on. All of these things we expect will fold within a decade or so of autonomous trucks becoming viable. With the trucks being automated a lot of what would be needed at a truck stop could then also be automated with little issue.<p>Then we have all the truck drivers, and all the people who served truck drivers, out of work with no decent career path. If I&#x27;ve ever heard of a plausible apocalypse scenario, that&#x27;s it.