Steve Viscelli is a former truck driver and now an economic sociologist at University of Pennsylvania studying freight transportation, including autonomous trucks. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
0:00 – Introduction
0:44 – Ethnography
12:57 – Challenges of driving a truck
31:36 – Trucking industry: State of affairs
1:04:41 – Future of autonomous trucks
1:30:57 – Solving the automated truck dilemma
2:02:52 – Role of society in automated trucking
2:30:01 – Tesla and revolutionizing the trucking industry
2:49:41 – Hope and final thoughts
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