Next Big Future: Google plans on making 10% of the US unemployed

Next Big Future: Google plans on making 10% of the US unemployed: If Google and other companies are successful with robotic cars so that all cars, trucks and buses were converted to robotic vehicles there w...

According the American Trucking Association there are 3.5 million truck drivers in the United States, with total industry employment at over 8.7 million. That means that one out of every 15 people working in the United States is employed in the trucking industry.

That means yours truly, since I drive.  Frankly, I don't see this as possible real soon, so it may not apply to me in my later years.  Eventually however, there will be computers that are smart enough to do everything that people do, but that time is well off into the future.  Driving jobs are more complicated than just getting from point A to point B.  There's other stuff involved.