Fully automated cars and trucks will ever happen. Even the likes of Musk are starting to accept it now.
The issue with AI, despite all its progression, is it’s all very narrow. It can do a single task well, such as operate peddles, but struggles with everything else.
As mentioned above, the very highest spec trucks of the near future still require you to steer… Quite an important part of the whole driving lark…
Having worked in tech previously, I am fully aware of how carried away and unrealistic the entire industry is. Go back just a decade and see what we should have had by now. Go back a little further and the techies of the past would have had you believe we would all driving flying cars, living across the galaxy and have robot butlers.
There’s life left in this industry for drivers, and will befor quite some time.