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Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants
Service automobiles, buses, trucks, boats, and other automotive or marine vehicles with fuel, lubricants, and accessories. Collect payment for services and supplies. May lubricate vehicle, change motor oil, refill antifreeze, or replace lights or other accessories, such as windshield wiper blades or fan belts. May repair or replace tires.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Collect cash payments from customers, and make change or charge purchases to customers' credit cards, providing customers with receipts.Mostly human for now
- 02Check tire pressure and levels of fuel, motor oil, transmission, radiator, battery, or other fluids, adding air or fluids as required.Mostly human for now
- 03Perform minor repairs, such as adjusting brakes, replacing spark plugs, or changing engine oil or filters.Mostly human for now
- 04Clean parking areas, offices, restrooms, or equipment, and remove trash.Mostly human for now
- 05Order stock, and price and shelve incoming goods.Mostly human for now
- 06Sell and install accessories, such as batteries, windshield wiper blades, fan belts, bulbs, or headlamps.Mostly human for now
- 07Grease and lubricate vehicles or specified units, such as springs, universal joints, or steering knuckles, using grease guns or spray lubricants.Mostly human for now
- 08Rotate, test, and repair or replace tires.Mostly human for now
- 09Prepare daily reports of fuel, oil, and accessory sales.AI could speed this up a lot
- 10Clean windshields.Mostly human for now
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
13%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 8% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 98% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Collect cash payments from customers, and make change or charge purchases to customers' credit cards, providing customers with receipts.
- Check tire pressure and levels of fuel, motor oil, transmission, radiator, battery, or other fluids, adding air or fluids as required.
- Perform minor repairs, such as adjusting brakes, replacing spark plugs, or changing engine oil or filters.