att:
We will see totally autonomous HGV`s very soon, in our life time.
Humans are no longer fit for purpose.
My favourite illustration of which side of the equation becomes surplus to requirements when automation takes over, is the concept of driverless dodgems.
With the human purpose removed (fun, in this case), it is the machine itself that becomes worthless, not the humans that used to build and operate them.
The automated future is not one in which humans become redundant, it is one in which consumer goods cost nothing, because currently it is human labour that causes them to have a cost in the first place, and provides the means (via wages) to purchase them.