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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Test Driver” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #670 of 702. Estimated risk: 98.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

56%

“Test Driver” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 56% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

54%

“Test Driver” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 54% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Inspect, test, sort, sample, or weigh nonagricultural raw materials or processed, machined, fabricated, or assembled parts or products for defects, wear, and deviations from specifications. May use precision measuring instruments and complex test equipment.

Avg. Annual Salary $51,670
Avg. Hourly Wage $24.84
Available Jobs (US) 591,180
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers #51-9061
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Measure dimensions of products to verify conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments, such as rulers, calipers, gauges, or micrometers.

  • Analyze test data, making computations as necessary, to determine test results.

  • Record inspection or test data, such as weights, temperatures, grades, or moisture content, and quantities inspected or graded.

  • Inspect or test raw materials, parts, or products to determine compliance with environmental standards.

  • Inspect, test, or measure materials, products, installations, or work for conformance to specifications.

  • Disassemble defective parts or components, such as inaccurate or worn gauges or measuring instruments.

  • Read dials or meters to verify that equipment is functioning at specified levels.

  • Administer tests to assess whether engineers or operators are qualified to use equipment.

  • Discard or reject products, materials, or equipment not meeting specifications.

  • Collect or select samples for testing or for use as models.

  • Stack or arrange tested products for further processing, shipping, or packaging.

  • Position products, components, or parts for testing.

  • Monitor production operations or equipment to ensure conformance to specifications, making necessary process or assembly adjustments.

  • Clean, maintain, calibrate, or repair measuring instruments or test equipment, such as dial indicators, fixed gauges, or height gauges.

  • Weigh materials, products, containers, or samples to verify packaging weights or ingredient quantities.

  • Notify supervisors or other personnel of production problems.

  • Mark items with details, such as grade or acceptance-rejection status.

  • Fabricate, install, position, or connect components, parts, finished products, or instruments for testing or operational purposes.

  • Grade, classify, or sort products according to sizes, weights, colors, or other specifications.

  • Remove defects, such as chips, burrs, or lap corroded or pitted surfaces.

  • Make minor adjustments to equipment, such as turning setscrews to calibrate instruments to required tolerances.

  • Compute defect percentages or averages, using formulas and calculators.

  • Compare colors, shapes, textures, or grades of products or materials with color charts, templates, or samples to verify conformance to standards.

  • Read blueprints, data, manuals, or other materials to determine specifications, inspection and testing procedures, adjustment methods, certification processes, formulas, or measuring instruments required.

  • Compute usable amounts of items in shipments.

  • Write test or inspection reports describing results, recommendations, or needed repairs.

  • Adjust, clean, or repair products or processing equipment to correct defects found during inspections.

  • Check arriving materials to ensure that they match purchase orders, submitting discrepancy reports as necessary.

  • Recommend necessary corrective actions, based on inspection results.

  • Monitor machines that automatically measure, sort, or inspect products.

  • Interpret legal requirements, provide safety information, or recommend compliance procedures to contractors, craft workers, engineers, or property owners.

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  • Pin gauges
  • Pulse generators
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  • Resonance acceleration instruments
  • Eddy current flaw detectors
  • Moisture meters
  • Industrial bench scales
  • Resistivity meters
  • Overhead cranes
  • Hydraulic pumps
  • In-circuit testers
  • Ductility testers
  • Height gauges
  • Penetrant flaw detectors
  • Continuity testers
  • Verisurf 3Dgage
  • Digital resistance meters
  • Bubble leak testers
  • Environmental chambers
  • Calorimetric leak testers
  • Optical gauges
  • Plug gauges
  • Verisurf CMM Master
  • Signal generators
  • Mass flow leak testers
  • Sampling oscilloscopes
  • Hipot testers
  • Frequency meters
  • Digital resistance thermometers
  • Magnetic induction acceleration instruments
  • Plotters
  • Frequency counters
  • Measuring microscopes
  • Optical comparators
  • Force transducers
  • Shock testers
  • Depth gauges
  • Impact hammers
  • Laser thickness gauges
  • Conductivity meters
  • Ammeters
  • Gloss meters
  • Laser shearography flaw detectors
  • Logic test systems
  • Holographic interferometers
  • Impact toughness testers
  • Thread gauges
  • Radiographic flaw detectors
  • Resistance meters
  • Digital voltmeters DVM
  • Calipers
  • Backplane testers
  • Manufacturing defect analyzers MDA
  • Digital multimeters
  • Fatigue testers
  • Verisurf Master3DGage
  • Null-balance acceleration instruments
  • Function generators
  • Piezoelectric acceleration instruments
  • Shear testers
  • Compression testers
  • Return loss calibrator RLC passive component testers
  • Hardness testers
  • Capacitive acceleration instruments
  • Utrasonic flaw detectors
  • Color spectrometers
  • Power meters
  • Linear or mixed signal equipment
  • Accelerometers
  • Multimeters
  • Personal computers
  • Coordinate measuring machines CMM
  • Tensile testers
  • Metallurgical microscopes
  • Beta gauges
  • Hydraulic lifts
  • Viscometers
  • Micrometers
  • Vibration and shaker systems
  • Strain gauges
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