{"id":57610,"date":"2017-05-23T00:42:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T07:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/self-driving-cars-could-cost-americas-professional-drivers-up-to-25000-jobs-a-month-goldman-sachs-says"},"modified":"2017-05-23T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T22:00:14","slug":"self-driving-cars-could-cost-americas-professional-drivers-up-to-25000-jobs-a-month-goldman-sachs-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/self-driving-cars-could-cost-americas-professional-drivers-up-to-25000-jobs-a-month-goldman-sachs-says","title":{"rendered":"Self-driving cars could cost America\u2019s professional drivers up to 25,000 jobs a month, Goldman Sachs says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/self-driving-cars-could-cost-americas-professional-drivers-up-to-25000-jobs-a-month-goldman-sachs-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The full impact of self-driving cars on society is several decades away \u2014 but when it hits, the job losses will be substantial for American truck drivers, according to a new report from Goldman Sachs.<\/p>\n<p>When autonomous vehicle saturation peaks, U.S. drivers could see job losses at a rate of 25,000 a month, or 300,000 a year, according to a report from Goldman Sachs Economics Research.<\/p>\n<p>Truck drivers, more so than bus or taxi drivers, will see the bulk of that job loss, according to the report. That makes sense, given today\u2019s employment: In 2014, there were 4 million driver jobs in the U.S., 3.1 million of which were truck drivers, Goldman said. That represents 2 percent of total employment.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/05\/22\/goldman-sachs-analysis-of-autonomous-vehicle-job-loss.html?__source=Facebook\">http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/05\/22\/goldman-sachs-analysis-of-aut...e=Facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The full impact of self-driving cars on society is several decades away \u2014 but when it hits, the job losses will be substantial for American truck drivers, according to a new report from Goldman Sachs. When autonomous vehicle saturation peaks, U.S. drivers could see job losses at a rate of 25,000 a month, or 300,000 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1878,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-employment","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57650,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57610\/revisions\/57650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}