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"Affecting employment" is not the same as reducing the total number of jobs available. And all Brin said was that we need to understand what the likely impacts on employment are.

Certainly, if it becomes cost effective to have your fleet of vehicles operated by software instead of humans, a lot of people will have to find new jobs. "Truck driver" is the most commonly held profession in a majority of the fifty states.



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