Anyone here ever have GPS give them wrong directions?
Anyone here ever have to reboot their computer?
Anyone here ever have a ‘smart’ appliance screw up on them?
I don’t want my life on the line with a big rig truck driving autonomously. Just ask yourself what the purpose of this is? It’s obviously not good for truck drivers who will lose their jobs. It’s to drive down costs for the companies that won’t have to pay for drivers. Their profit vs our safety. No thanks.
Well, I’ll first suggest that you don’t fly! Most of the flight is done by computer.
Second, there’s safety standards that will be applied that your desktop computer, navigation system, and appliances aren’t subjected to. There’s an entire industry around “safety software”. There’s multiple levels of redundancy in the system.
Eventually they’ll be better drivers than us. It’ll be considered immoral to drive yourself.
As far as jobs are concerned... Aircraft still have a pilot and a co-pilot. Truck drivers are always scarce respective to demand. For the foreseeable future they just won’t do the “long haul” but handle the “last mile”. This will enable them to always be local instead of always being away from home.
At worst, it’s just creative-destruction in action - create more jobs than it removes.