Truck drivers can put the brakes on their worst automation fears.

Robots are not getting behind the wheel and stealing the jobs of long-haul drivers anytime soon, according to two government experts, offering a contrarian view to some of the biggest names in tech and a presidential candidate.

In a study published in the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Maury Gittleman, a research economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Kristen Monaco, an associate commissioner in the Office of Compensation and Working Conditions also at BLS, argue that there are three main reasons why the threat of automation, robots and AI to truck drivers is more fear-mongering than fearsome.

“Looking at the data, we believe that, while the risk of job loss from automation is very real, the projections that often get touted are overstated,” the two penned in Harvard Business Review Wednesday.

The projections they’re referring to are the elimination of some 2-3 million truck driving jobs, and one that recently got a boost by presidential candidate Andrew Yang, who retweeted Tuesday an article on trucking automation by Business Insider that perpetuated the projection in question.

The “company’s goal is to have fully autonomous trucks on highways within 5 years. UPS just invested,” Yang tweeted, referring to an article on the self-driving-truck startup TuSimple.

But not so fast, argue Gittleman and Monaco.

First of all, “truck drivers do more than drive trucks,” they say.

“While some tasks are closer to automation – for example, checking for unbalanced loads, low tires, and other safety problems can be performed by sensors – dealing with any issues still requires human intervention,” they point out, adding that “even if a sensor spots a flat tire, a driver will have to fix it.”

They next argue that “full automation of truck driving is far into the future.”

Referring to the standards set by the Society of Automotive Engineers, which defines automation on a scale of 0 to 5 (5 being fully automated), the study found some companies tinkering with level 4 automation, but none at level 5.

“We used level 4 as our benchmark, because level 5 automation, which requires the system to perform all driving and monitoring activities in all conditions, is not currently being tested in practice, and level 3 automation, which requires human intervention as the system backup, does not really threaten drivers’ jobs,” the report outlined.

Most of that level 4 development, they found, is largely focused on long-haul trips, not short or local ones, which drastically reduces the number of potential jobs impacted by automation.

This leads them to their final point: “There aren’t as many truck drivers in the U.S. as people think.”

Instead of the millions of truck driver jobs touted as threatened, the reality is closer to 456,000 drivers. It’s a “much smaller number than the self-driving truck headlines suggest, but still quite a significant one,” they noted.