Teamsters Condemn Gavin Newsom’s Anti-Worker, Anti-Progress Veto Spree
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(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) - Following a legislative session where he vetoed a multitude of bills that would have improved worker’s rights, occupational safety, and
  • aelwero@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    “legislation that would have required a human operator in any vehicle over 10,000 pounds.”

    Dafuq kinda looney toons sentence is that? Its proposed legislation? It’s optional that a commercial vehicle going down the road has someone in it? And someone vetoed the proposal to require this?

    Absurdity

    • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I think the purpose is to directly combat the development and release of automated semi trucks. A lot of that highway driving could be automated even with technology we have right now.

      It would save transport companies a shit ton by switching to mostly driverless vehicles, only requiring a driver in the first and last few miles of the deliveries.

      • Jaysyn@kbin.social
        51·
        1 year ago

        It would save transport companies a shit ton by switching to mostly driverless vehicles, only requiring a driver in the first and last few miles of the deliveries.

        Why not just do that with trains?

      • aelwero@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Youve got that backwards… the safest place to start turning automation loose is at distribution centers and manufacturers at the beginning and end of supply chains.

        Lower speeds and significantly less bystander traffic risk, especially pedestrians, bikes, etc.

        I drive a hostler truck, and one of the biggest benefits over long haul is that a completely catastrophic mistake on my part will at most just destroy a trailer, and the only people i have a chance of killing is me and a couple forklift drivers (and the forklift drivers have several mechanical restraints, so they’d have to be complicit for them to be involved).

        Long haul drivers are constantly within mere feet of random members of the public, and very minor mistakes could result in a death.

        Shouldn’t be a conversation about money. It should be a conversation about who gets put at risk, and a representative of the people should be siding on safety of the public, which is to say that requiring human oversight on publicly c roads should be an obvious yes. Let the companies save money on their own property assuming their own risk.