#Model truck

[beholdmystuffz]

Back cover of Legionaires 3 - (4 part mini series) - (issue 3 April 1986) an advertisement for the 4 x 4 pickup model, The Animal!🐯

[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.

[wanderinghostsworld]

[arcadebroke]

働くクルマ。

[crazywonderlandbluebird]

Brains, beauty, and a whole lot of boldness. 💡💅

[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

[inumberoneinfluencercollectorme]

[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

[paperholm]

Combination 109.

Pale Lemon Yellow ~ Blackish Olive

Colour study using Sanzo Wada’s Dictionary of Colour combinations.

[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!

[crazywonderlandbluebird]

I’m not sugar and spice, I’m more like whiskey and fire. 🔥💕

[world-of-celebs]

Rachel Cook