It makes me uncomfortable to go back home and to look at truckers who have just been laid off to say that we had a hearing on autonomous vehicles knowing that they need to be absorbed into another trucking company.
Sykes expresses discomfort about discussing automation while truckers are losing jobs.
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I have signed that letter with my colleague, Nikema Williams from Georgia, who is also very interested in making sure that we are holding corporate actors accountable.
We just last Friday brought the first EV charger that was funded by the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Program online.
And we had a similar investment in the district with $4 million going to SARTA for the zero-emissions buses, which, again, is very exciting.
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