"Automation is one of those subjects that tends to attract a lot of hype and a lot of misinformation. The mainstream conversation about tech has gotten more sophisticated in recent years, but the mainstream conversation about automation remains surprisingly undeveloped. To put it less politely, there’s an incredible amount of nonsense out there. And now we have Andrew Yang in the Democratic debates talking about how self-driving trucks are going to bring mass unemployment—a beloved (and inaccurate) talking point of the mainstream automation discourse."