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Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs
Drive a motor vehicle to transport passengers on a planned or scheduled basis. May collect a fare. Includes nonemergency medical transporters and hearse drivers.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Test vehicle equipment, such as lights, brakes, horns, or windshield wipers, to ensure proper operation.Mostly human for now
- 02Check the condition of a vehicle's tires, brakes, windshield wipers, lights, oil, fuel, water, and safety equipment to ensure that everything is in working order.Mostly human for now
- 03Comply with traffic regulations to operate vehicles in a safe and courteous manner.Mostly human for now
- 04Follow relevant safety regulations and state laws governing vehicle operation, and ensure that passengers follow safety regulations.Mostly human for now
- 05Operate vehicles with specialized equipment, such as wheelchair lifts, to transport and secure passengers with special needs.Mostly human for now
- 06Report any vehicle malfunctions or needed repairs.Mostly human for now
- 07Perform routine vehicle maintenance, such as regulating tire pressure and adding gasoline, oil, and water.Mostly human for now
- 08Pick up and drop off passengers at regularly scheduled neighborhood locations, following strict time schedules.Mostly human for now
- 09Drive shuttle busses, limousines, company cars, or privately owned vehicles to transport passengers.Mostly human for now
- 10Prepare and submit reports that may include the number of passengers or trips, hours worked, mileage driven fuel consumed, or fares received.AI could speed this up a lot
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
25%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 43% 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 100% 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.
- Test vehicle equipment, such as lights, brakes, horns, or windshield wipers, to ensure proper operation.
- Check the condition of a vehicle's tires, brakes, windshield wipers, lights, oil, fuel, water, and safety equipment to ensure that everything is in working order.
- Comply with traffic regulations to operate vehicles in a safe and courteous manner.