We Chased Driverless Trucks In Texas. What We Saw Will Scare You.
Truck driving used to be a solid middle-class job. Not anymore. Driverless trucks just hit the highway in Texas. It’s displacing truck drivers. And truckers warn, “your job could be next.”
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September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
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@iPaintHouses
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
Who in their sane mind put a truck on highway without an human operator?! Even if technology is 100 percent good! Its a psychological problem to know a big truck runs behind u without driver
@iPaintHouses
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
but, are they pdf? Cuz if not i cant stand this a Bit.
@Fernandez218
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
they should do a combination of auto pilot for trucks the way they do for pilots in the air. i think that would be a decent compromise.
@marcelledbetter7296
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
It's bound to fail eventually, that's why the industry is falling back on Plan B… Illegals.
@marcelledbetter7296
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
It is a race to Technocracy…. Technological Totalitarianism.
When the Technos finally get their wish, there will be nothing left for anyone… except to get in the Box Car.
@marcelledbetter7296
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
What about Weather Conditions in, say…
Windy Kansas,
Snowy Colorado,
Icy Iowa and Illinois?
The Truck Co will blame the Software Co, the Software Co will blame the Trucking Co Equipment/Maintenance and the river of splattered and crushed motorists left in the wake will end up with nothing they can do about it and nowhere to go until the bigger battle gets settled… DECADES down the road.
@lamantwilliams1032
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
Automated trucks can’t replace skill. They test these trucks out in perfect weather conditions. Try those autonomous trucks out in the ice and snow and rain. You’re going to have more fatalities than you know what to do with. They also test them in wide open streets of Texas try that in the city and urban areas. I drive across the George Washington bridge every night and no autonomous truck are going to last crossing that bridge.
@SuperElectricmonk
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
Wilfred Owen
@Anim3Gamer
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
Andrew Yang had warned us. His plan to tax the companies running the AI and using that tax to fund a UBI program would save a lot of people, especially as jobs disappear with no replacement.
@monopero1
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
This is awesome ❤ Trump will do nothing to stop this but support 💯
@monopero1
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
Hasta que rayó la Aurora
@Ruepel
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
Platooning: is this tech bros inventing trains again?
@gloriagarcia-lara171
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
Driverless Trucks! That is a HARD NO for Me ✊🏼
@TheRockacer22
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
LMAO, the Teamster saying he is not anti corpo. Cmon man, you aint fooling anybody 😂😂😂 its ok dude, you are among like minded individuals LMFAO
@Katana622
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
i unsubbed due to your yellow jouranlism clickbait titles. do better .
@dafalzonAUS
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
Driverless trucks don't take drugs to stay awake or go on strike
@mason-wr1we
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
Trade or electrical, plumbing ect won't be replaced bye robots because how will a Robot so that
@mason-wr1we
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
That's scary. That should at least have a asitcance driver there to kepp and eye on things
@Kevin-id5hx
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
Trucking sucks because our economy is dieing if the rates were better u couldn't afford to buy anything over spending and printing money will kill America
@tystephen1332
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
this is an accountability nightmare. we cant send algorithms to jail and the CEO's certainly arent going to take responsibility for accidents
@tonycanabal1659
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
Reminds me of the Superfriends episode about the G.E.E.C.automaton system and the Justice League's warning above the drawbacks about it.
@jofo7881
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
These tech guys don't care if their innovation is good on the middle to long term. All they want is sell their product as fast as posible and move on to the next new bullshit. They act like predators, and so they should be put in a cage.
@GamingInfested
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
from any angle and on every corner, capitalism is cancer that will ki ll us
@peggyferder8834
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
Hey I'm not a truck driver but I can clearly see that this big corporation Aurora ; What it cares about is the bottom line MONEY!!!! Don't kid yourself, that's all these corporations care about.
There is not a shortage of drivers!!!! The drivers need to be paid substantially more than what they're making and get the middleman out of there Which is clogging up the system!!!! Let the truck driver do his work, which is hauling goods for the rest of us here in the USA and abroad so we all partake in supporting each other, DOING THE RIGHT THING in our endeavors as serve each other.This is how God intended God Bless you Truckers We Thank You
for all you do and all you sacrifice.
@adriandelaat2905
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
Get rid of truck drivers, and the over paid union jobs.
@adriandelaat2905
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
We don’t need truck drivers, that kill thousands of people on the road daily
@adriandelaat2905
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
Should be driverless trucks all over the world, and they stay in the right lane only
@MatthewWhite-ql8xj
September 19, 2025 at 4:20 am
First thing I am an ex-trucker I'd keep trucking. But my disease of multiple sclerosis doesn't make it safe for me to do so. Which sucks because I enjoyed it being a trucker and seeing this amazing cuntry and deliver something that the American populist needs. Is that's one thing that America doesn't get. Everything is delivered by a truck. And now, one of the great institutions of America swiftly trying to be whittled away.
By AUTONOMOUS trucks. And as a nation, we should band together and get rid of this.And be honest this video says truckers need to rest and stuff like that, this does happen yet 90% of the big trucking companies already have truckers that drive illegally and get tickets and the trucking company that supports them just pays the tickets and give him a warning and warning and another warning and never fire them. Because they're driving illegally, just so they can get to the pick up or drop off way early.
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