How and when automation may affect long-haul trucking
In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. Indeed, Frey and Osborne themselves thought that there was a 79% chance that truck driving would be automated within a decade or so.