utIt’s interesting to see that many tech prognosticators see self-driving vehicles to be a reality in a decade (or less ). A little Google search experiment got 1.4 million hits for self-driving cars OR trucks decade . The search gets a bunch of junk but also turns up titles like Self-driving cars could be on Britain’s road within a decade – but Government ‘must be ready’

Google’s tiny urban cars (pictured below) are already cruising the streets of Mountain View. And as Consumer Reports pointed out, some of the components of autonomous vehicles already exist on production cars, such as crash-avoidance systems. Think in terms of cruise control evolving in advanced technological ways — that’s how the changes seem to be moving.

Driving is a major jobs category that employs millions of Americans, from highway truckers to cabbies and delivery drivers. So the autonomous technology for vehicles will be a big unemployer. The ride-sharing business Uber plans on moving into self-driving cars as soon as possible to bypass human drivers who expect payment.

Now the corporate robotizers have targeted highway truckers for obsolescence, even though they are a part of American culture, with films and music.

In 1978, Sam Peckinpah directed the film Convoy, starring Kris Kristofferson, during the craze of CB radios used by long-haul truckers.

The late Johnny Cash appreciated working people and sang a tribute to big-rig drivers in this clip:

But now the suits say they need robot trucks because the industry is “facing a major driver shortage” — but if that were true, wages would be going up to attract more workers. Nope, self-driving trucks are just cheaper, that’s all.

But when half of the jobs in America are done by smart machines in 20 years (as forecast by Oxford University researchers in 2013), who will buy the automation-produced goods and services? How is the brave new economy supposed to function when tens of millions of workers and their paychecks have been made obsolete?

In addition, America won’t need to import millions of immigrants to build houses or drive taxis or pick produce. Millions more excess non-workers will add to the existing suffering in communities hard hit by the globalist economy of outsourcing and mass immigration.

Note that the following report predicts a likelihood of self-driving big-rig trucks functioning in a decade.