Thinking back to this CGP Grey video and how I believed it at the time.

And now:

US trucker shortage means everything is more expensive

The trucking industry has been short drivers for years, but the pandemic made it worse. The shortage means the price of groceries and moving costs are going up. CNN's Vanessa Yurkevich reports.

Source: CNNBusiness

  • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    am i wrong to say rail shipping would require significantly less labor? i get the feeling it would

      • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        its totally explicable thru history but its still interesting to me how capital has crafted circumstances wherein more workers in the first world are required

      • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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        3 years ago

        Autonomous vehicles are already being used for deliveries, they could be used for last-mile type stuff to reach places the tracks don't go.

        • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Autonomous vehicles are already being used for deliveries

          Oh yeah? Where and what?

          • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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            3 years ago

            https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/06/yandex-self-driving-group-partners-with-grubhub-to-bring-robotic-delivery-to-college-campuses/

            https://www.ttnews.com/articles/fedex-test-nuro-autonomous-delivery-vehicles

            A friend of mine was in Russia over the summer, and he commented that they were using similar tech in their "tech cities" (equivalent of Silicon Valley)