Posted on 01/21/2015 12:38:39 PM PST by Rusty0604
I don’t think I’d feel safer passing a driverless truck on the road, that’s for sure.
The trend has been bigger and bigger equipment, to reduce the amount of operator need per horsepower. With automation, the equipment will get small again, and you’ll have a half dozen little dozers speeding around digging holes. Between the mexicans and the robots, “operators” will be history.
Crane operators, often at the top of the pay scale, will also be out of work. The new cranes will be “fly by wire”. The mexican operator will suggest something to the crane, and the crane will do what it can, safely.
You lack imagination.
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