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 That’s right folks, if any of your friends and family are big rig drivers, tell them about this. 

On October 20th, 2016, the world’s first-ever commercial shipment using self-driving technology took place in Colorado. 

Truckers Everywhere are Threatened by New Self-Driving Big Rig Technology!

A driver-less big rig truck drove 50,000 Budweiser beers down I-25 from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs. The human driver watched in the sleeper cab. 

This self-driving technology was invented by Otto, a San Francisco-based startup, recently purchased by Uber for $680 million dollars, that is making trucks driver-less. 

Truckers Everywhere are Threatened by New Self-Driving Big Rig Technology!

 

The truck had three lidars on and in the cab, radar on the bumper and high-precision cameras on the windshield. 

Just remember: over 70% of cargo in the USA is moved every day by 1.5 million American big rig drivers, real-life humans. Those 1.5 million could be out of a job by next year. 

If you remove the human element from trucks, you remove the backbone of America. What will we have next, bionic farmers? 

Truckers Everywhere are Threatened by New Self-Driving Big Rig Technology!
Truckers Everywhere are Threatened by New Self-Driving Big Rig Technology!

 

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