In setting up the interviews, find out what the users are doing and make sure the activities you care about are covered.Īnd set the expectation that you’ll run the interview in the location where they do the activity-work, home, or on the go.
The user needs to have current or recent examples of doing the activity they can replay in the product, or there’s no way to test the prototype with them. It’s especially important to make sure a prototype interview is set up with people who actually do the activities the prototype supports. "Here's what we know – they're coming faster than anyone realizes, and they will be a sea change in society," said Siegel.Don’t do an interview with people who don’t do the activity supported in the prototype
The SELF DRIVE Act was passed with bipartisan support in the House in September 2017. Leaders are also pushing for legislation on the federal level. So far, 33 states have introduced legislation about autonomous vehicles, according to the autonomous vehicles legislative database from the National Conference of State Legislatures. "Autonomous vehicles will never be drunk, distracted or drowsy," said Kaufman.īeyond safety, self-driving cars could contribute to major gains in fuel efficiency, lower transportation costs to the consumer and increase access to rural areas. Nearly 38,000 people died in car crashes in 2016, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and most serious crashes are due to human error. "The benefits outweigh the cost by a large margin," said Bin-Nun. Much like the creation of the interstate highway system or the internet, new autonomous vehicle technology has the potential to have a widespread impact on society. In addition, a focus on skills could open opportunities for those without a college degree. The world won't need fewer mechanics, he said. "People put layers of simplification on top of it, which opens up access for less-trained people to participate into that industry." "In the emergence of any new technology, the preponderance of jobs are more skilled, more technical positions," he said. "Whether it's maintenance technicians, fleet oversight, remote oversight of the fleet, there's still going to be a need for service technicians to maintain and serve the fleet," said Kaufman.Īs self-driving cars become more prevalent, the kinds of jobs available will expand, said Siegel of ZipRecruiter.
Software developers have come from the gaming industry to help build out these testing platforms for Zoox, he said.Ĭar maintenance and logistics positions will also continue to grow, said Kaufman. "There's a huge opportunity to test your software in simulated environments," said Bert Kaufman, head of corporate and regulatory affairs at Zoox. But that won't happen right away the report estimated that from 2025 to 2030, autonomous cars will be 20 percent of car sales. It is estimated that autonomous cars could eliminate 300,000 driving jobs a year, according to a May 2017 report from Goldman Sachs. The median household income for all households in the United States was $57,617 in 2016, according to the American Community Survey.
The 2017 median pay for heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers was $20.42 per hour, which adds up to $42,480 per year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Still, it is one of few jobs where a worker can make more than twice the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour without a college education. The average motor vehicle operator is male and older, with less education and pay than the typical worker, according to the Economics and Statistics Administration report. The remaining 11.7 million, who drive as part of job positions such as mail carriers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians, are likely to benefit from new technology. Among those workers, truck drivers are more vulnerable to automation because they drive mainly on highways, and that type of navigation is easier to automate than negotiating city streets. Only 3.8 million of those workers operate motor vehicles such as a truck or taxi. worked in jobs related to driving, according to an August 2017 report from the Department of Commerce's Economics and Statistics Administration. In 2015, some 15.5 million workers in the U.S.