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End of the road for US truckers?

Truck drivers and the robots that could replace them

Truck drivers and the robots that could replace them. Jahd Khalil visits a truck stop in the US state of Virginia to find out why there's a chronic shortage of truckers in the US. Robert Brown from the robotics company TuSimple and Greg Hastings, associate partner at McKinsey & Co, tell Manuela Saragosa why long-distance driving is exactly the kind of job suited to robots.

(Photo: A truck stop on the US-Mexico border, Credit: Getty Images)

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Fri 4 Oct 2019 12:32GMT

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