Aug 19, 2019
6 min read
Self-Driving Trucks Won’t Kill Millions of Jobs
We’ve been oversold by people pushing their own agendas
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…
