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Assist motorists or pedestrians

This depends on human connection: empathy, trust, being physically present and responding to someone in real time. People can tell the difference.

Part of Provide general assistance to others, such as customers, patrons, or motorists, under the O*NET work activity group Assisting and Caring for Others. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 0 AI-assist, 5 stays human).

Tasks built on this activity

• Escort young children across roads or highways.Stays human School Bus Monitors
• Escort small children across roads and highways.Stays human Bus Drivers, School
• Provide road information to assist motorists.Stays human Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers
• Provide assistance to motorists needing help with problems, such as flat tires, keys locked in cars, or dead batteries.Stays human Parking Enforcement Workers

Tasks where it is part of the work

• Direct or escort pedestrians across streets, stopping traffic, as necessary.Stays human Crossing Guards and Flaggers