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 would be huge employment impacts. There are a lot of driving related jobs. Fortunately a lot more jobs will be created from expanded cities and greater mobility and productivity.

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.

Professional truck drivers drove over 400 billion miles in 2005, a 146 percent increase in 25 years. In 2006, the trucking industry hauled 10.7 billion tons of freight, or 69 percent of total U.S. freight tonnage. In contrast, rail was the next busiest mode, moving 13.3 percent of the nation’s freight tonnage.

A shortage of professional truck drivers exists in some segments of the trucking industry. There is a current shortage of approximately 20,000 truck drivers per year. This number is expected to increase to 111,000 drivers by the year 2014.

Bureau of Labor Statistics

1.6 million heavy truck and tractor truck drivers.

1,262,600 Delivery truck and driver sales workers

647,000 bus drivers

250,000 taxi drivers and chauffeurs.

Robotic cars can save a million lives each year worldwide and 30,000 lives each year in the United states and provide 2 trillion dollars each year.

Robotic cars can more than double the size of cities which can boost efficiency by 15%.

Robotic cars will provide a lot more mobility and independence to the elderly and to those younger than 16.

If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks