Elon Musk is a man of ideas and amazing technologies, the South African Business tycoon is a bad ass Engineer, inventor and investor etc. Talk about X.com/confinity forming Paypal, SpaceX,
Neuralink, SolarCity and Tesla Inc.; this man is behind them all!
With a Net-worth of $20.8 Billion as at October 2017 and the 21st Richest in America, but you have to make an initial deposit of $5 grand to get one of the super-semi Electric trucks, a reachargeable heavy duty Truck brand that could cover 60 mph in less than 7 secs from a rest point and could theoretically travel for 500 miles with just one full charge session even when fully laden. A self driving trucks looks very futuristic but let's us all read to the end as i juxtapose the Good and the Ugly sides of this Gig.
The announcement and the lunch of this Semi heavy-duty truck definitely had the greatest impact on the world as much as it would have on the Roads, this half Intelligent machines are powered by a Model 3 motor on each of its four drive wheels and boasts a drag coefficient lower than a Bugatti Chiron, can drive 800 kilometers per charge i.e just a single charge of its lithium-ion battery pack.
THE GOOD
Heavy duty trucks are not so palatable to drive, it is a very rigorous job, exhausting and very lonely.
Not many of this jobs pays well. Think about the very long distance to be covered by road or the long hours of sitting in a position which takes tolls on the body of the driver and makes them numb, this is making truckers/drivers shorter in the Trucking business.
The American Trucking association reports the annual drivers turnover for large truckloads carriers reached a massive 90% this year and predicts a 50,000 driver shortage by early 2018- Wired
Think about the 4,000 and over truck related deaths yearly, or the countless Truck accidents that occurs year-in-year-out. All has a happy ending with Tesla's Automated Electric Trucks; it caters for drivers/truckers shortages and reduces Road accidents by heavy trucks with this Automated vehicles.
THE UGLY
So what happens to the Truckers left when Tesla's Automated Electric Trucks hits the roads in mass?
Nearly 3.2 million people currently employed to drive or work on deliveries-Wired
So what does the future holds for this Drivers(Moms, Dads, girls, boys) and delivery agents when this Trucks and could be automated and remotely controlled to drive themselves to the actual locations/destination of deliveries(Different cities and towns away). It is not clear yet if drivers still has a role to play in this Advanced Trucks systems just like modern flights with Autopilots and Real Pilots.
Today, trucks carry 70% of all goods shipped in the US, about 10.7 Billion Tons this year pulling in a average of $719 Billion in Revenue-Wired
Intelligent trucks that could operates itself would need smaller units of drivers, shedding off more human/manual aspect of Truck driving, it has be predicted that:
All driving industries could loose up to 300,000 jobs a year to automation- Goldman Sachs Economists.
This will have effects on more advance countries and other States over others, some of the states in the US that would be most likely affected by this technology are Iowa, Indiana, West Virginia etc. But for most developing countries and states, seems like a long future occurrence and they needs not worry about loosing jobs and drop in annual revenue of Trucking Industry.
CONCLUDING
Looking at the Statistics of who loses his or her job and who gains/lose more in annual revenue/profit, it is glaring Elon Musk's innovation stands in limbo between threat to several likelihoods and a more advance world, would it be a global benefits or just a restricted advantages, fame and Glory? Time would tell once this trucks hits the roads in mass!
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