#Model Trucks

[muttball]

Coca Cola Delivery

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The “3,000,000 truck drivers” who were supposedly at risk from self-driving tech are a mirage. The US Standard Occupational Survey conflates “truck drivers” with “driver/sales workers.” “Trucker” also includes delivery drivers and anyone else operating a heavy-goods vehicle.

The truckers who were supposedly at risk from self-driving cars were long-haul freight drivers, a minuscule minority among truck drivers. The theory was that we could replace 16-wheelers with autonomous vehicles who traveled the interstates in their own dedicated, walled-off lanes, communicating vehicle to vehicle to maintain following distance. The technical term for this arrangement is “a shitty train.”

What’s more, long-haul drivers do a bunch of tasks that self-driving systems couldn’t replace: “checking vehicles, following safety procedures, inspecting loads, maintaining logs, and securing cargo.”

But again, even if you could replace all the long-haul truckers with robots, it wouldn’t justify the sky-high valuations that self-driving car companies attained during the bubble. Long-haul truckers are among the most exploited, lowest paid workers in America. Transferring their wages to their bosses would only attain a modest increase in profits, even as it immiserated some of America’s worst-treated workers.

But the twin lies of self-driving truck — that these were on the horizon, and that they would replace 3,000,000 workers — were lucrative lies. They were the story that drove billions in investment and sky-high valuations for any company with “self-driving” in its name.

For the founders and investors who cashed out before the bubble popped, the fact that none of this was true wasn’t important. For them, the goal of successful self-driving cars was secondary. The primary objective was to convince so many people that self-driving cars were inevitable that anyone involved in the process could become a centimillionaire or even a billionaire.

- Google's AI Hype Circle: We have to do Bard because everyone else is doing AI; everyone else is doing AI because we're doing Bard.

[kiwi-rebel-57-06]

Kiwi Rebel. '30 Ford Model A Pickup Truck.

[arseniy-arsenicum33]

DocM77 with a new Hermit!

Docm77 wouldn't just spread lies on the internet... They are gonna be best buds!

[quirkle2]

[zombie au] mentally ill teenager meets another mentally ill teenager and pretends he's the normal one

[mudwerks]

Pretty Kelly Lee, California's "Safe Driving Queen" & The P.I.E "Mighty Mite" Half-Scale Model, Dedicated To The Promotion Of Highway Safety

I want that truck

[vamprisms]

one does not simply walk into mordor? thank fuck i hate walking. tell sam to pull the 1998 nissan micra around

[woodsmanwife]

Estate sale score!

[world-of-celebs]

Rachel Cook

[galsoncars]

Natalie Noir

Photography: Mitzi Valenzuela

[ladychandraofthemoone]

🚂🛤️

Some Midlander and coaches and trucks I did for my final project at Sculpture I did last week, everyone loved it, someone even took photos it’s was worth the wheels constantly breaking off-

Bonus: oops it looks like Midlander had a bit of an accident-

[spicyraeman]

what kind of truck would hick'zel drive?

Rebuilt 1996 f-150, im stuck between it being in preem condition or the loudest patchwork imaginable tho

also I remember seeing someone say that it'd be called The Red Dragon and im one hundo taking that

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

i knew it would happen but oh my god. oh my. fucking god. i couldn't imagine it would be so bad when requesting. i was thinking about the lola propaganda and emo boy lovers and the gross freak haters. i couldn't possibly imagine that he would get such a GIANT pass percentage. yes there's six more hours to go but i know it's going to get worse over the night. As the blog curator is he really now the most passed on character I'm curious

Currently Masterson is still at a higher percentage than Beast Machines Rattrap, who I believe is our current Least Fuckable character. Masterson clears the bar by a whole percent.

And with your help we can set the bar even lower. It's not too late to Get His Ass

I don't know beachcomber too well but any humanfucker bots are welcome here.

Admittedly I was thinking at least a little bit about the rescue bots when I wrote the post because I swear to Primus every one of the main cast of bots is trying to fuck humans. Not even necessarily their human partners specifically (boulder and heatwave absolutely are tho), but at some point, every one of the bots has Said or Done Some Shit in the show that reads like they're interested in getting with humans. Prowl "I've fantasized about being human before" TFA walked so the rescue bots could sprint.

(I've also just kinda had Boulder/Graham Brainrot lately, so that might be contributing lmao)

[puppyeared]

sketches for sleight's van, the Magicmobile ^_^

[ficklesprite]

Saw a tesla cyber truck today in the wild... that shit ain't right.

[ldr-is-my-life]

im feeling sick, i need to take a puff