Self-Driving Trucks Won’t Kill Millions of Jobs

We’ve been oversold by people pushing their own agendas

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In 2015, universal basic income advocate Scott Santens wrote a compelling piece arguing that self-driving transport trucks would kill up to 8.7 million jobs by automating the work of human drivers. The argument was picked up by a number of publications, helping to set off a narrative of fear…