could this have a positive effect for the introduction (technical, legal, societal) of autonomous trucks? I'd imagine that at least on the political side, there will be less pressure to protect soon-to-be-obsolete jobs when there are too few people wanting to do the work in the first place.

BTW, I don't buy the "we want to make highways safer, not cut the truck driver out of the equation" speak. If I just need personnel on site to handle on-/offloading and paperwork, maybe maneuvering into the loading bay, there is no justification to carry that personnel on the truck.

>If I just need personnel on site to handle on-/offloading and paperwork, maybe maneuvering into the loading bay, there is no justification to carry that personnel on the truck

Or you put them on the truck like the train operators in Singapore - they're there in case something goes wrong, not to actually run the trains

I hate the fact that this "game" did not feel overly strange, and I played for a good while until I realized that a) I was not required to keep doing those mindless tasks b) my real work was still waiting

Before you switched back, did you also realize that c) you're also not really required to do most of your "real work"?