![]() ![]() ![]() “The trucking industry is $740 billion a year … in many of these operations, labor’s a third of that cost,” Steve Viscelli, author of The Big Rig, tells FRONTLINE in the above excerpt from the film. In the above excerpt from the new FRONTLINE documentary In the Age of AI, meet the young CEO of a self-driving truck company whose vehicles are already delivering freight from California to Arizona an independent trucker and his wife whose livelihood could be threatened by the new tech and a sociologist and author who’s been studying the forces reshaping the trucking industry.Īmong them: the rise in automation, some forms of which are powered by AI - including self-driving trucks. Self-driving trucks may have once seemed like a futuristic vision.īut in recent years, they’ve begun taking to the road - and their implications for the labor market, and long-haul truck drivers in particular, could be enormous. ![]()
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