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Sunday, October 28, 2018
The Future Is Near: The Impact of Autonomous Trucks
This piece at evonomics.com by Andrew Yang is distressing, and convincing. Perhaps the worst part is the impact on small businesses which serve the trucking industry: the truckstops and motels. Yang doesn't note it, but those enterprises might well be the lifeline for "flyover America"--the wide open spaces where farming no longer employs the people it used to.
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