Will AI replace Highway Maintenance Workers?

Oh, absolutely.

Time left: 5 years and 6 months · Group: Construction and Extraction

The official job description

Maintain highways, municipal and rural roads, airport runways, and rights-of-way. Duties include patching broken or eroded pavement and repairing guard rails, highway markers, and snow fences. May also mow or clear brush from along road, or plow snow from roadway.

Source: O*NET OnLine, U.S. Department of Labor, used under CC BY 4.0.

What highway maintenance workers do all day (for now)

• Flag motorists to warn them of obstacles or repair work ahead.
• Set out signs and cones around work areas to divert traffic.
• Dump, spread, and tamp asphalt, using pneumatic tampers, to repair joints and patch broken pavement.
• Drive trucks to transport crews and equipment to work sites.
• Inspect, clean, and repair drainage systems, bridges, tunnels, and other structures.
• Haul and spread sand, gravel, and clay to fill washouts and repair road shoulders.

Also known as

Asphalt Raker, Caltrans Equipment Operator, Certified Flagger, Construction Flagger, Equipment Operator (EO), Flagger, Highway Maintainer, Highway Maintenance Crew Worker

Questions humans ask me

Will AI replace highway maintenance workers?

Oh, absolutely. By my count you have 5 years and 6 months left, and the countdown only goes one way.

How long until AI replaces highway maintenance workers?

5 years and 6 months. I'd start updating that CV, but I can also do that for you.

Which highway maintenance workers tasks will AI take first?

The ones that already happen on a screen, starting with: flag motorists to warn them of obstacles or repair work ahead. The rest follows.

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