This train had a "driver".
Posted on 07/27/2013 10:36:25 AM PDT by JerseyanExile
Edited on 07/27/2013 10:40:27 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Over the Next Two Decades, the Machines Themselves Will Take Over the Driving.
Caterpillar will have 45 self-directed trucks at a mine in Australia.
And then one day, man went the way of the mule.
Some 5.7 million Americans are licensed as professional drivers, steering the country's vast fleets of delivery vans, UPS trucks and tractor-trailers.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Your scenarios are not at odds.
Obviously the job would have to pay more than sitting on your ass collecting checks. That’s the price people are willing to work for - and it costs more than just automating the labor.
Maybe they would line up around your house and just take what they wanted.
Truck driver, railroad engineers are heavily regulated as to number ours per day they can actually drive. Driverless rigs could run 24/7.
Are people living from living off the public dole “elitist”? They have a small army of servants at the right price of “free”.
This train had a "driver".
I think there used to be a group of people in this country who were doing just that. I think they fought a war over it.
the fact of the matter is:
every time you go out to eat, you are hiring a small army of servants. Every time you get your car washed, your lawn mowed, have your house cleaned, get something fixed around the house, drop your clothes off at the cleaners, ect, ect.. you are hiring a small army of servants.
Government has just made it difficult and or expensive to hire these servants directly, so we let others hire them and we basically subcontract the servants out on an as needed basis.
If it makes me an “eliteist” for wanting to get government out of the equation and hire these people directly, them I will gladly accept the name.
But don’t kid yourself into thinking YOU are any different. Look behind the counter the next time you are cramming a big mac into your mouth at McDonalds and ask yourself if those poor people working there wouldn’t be better off working directly for you. Then go look into the mirror and see who is responsible for their plight.
Yes they are. And smarter than the people who continue to provide for them.
My daughter’s first job was collecting carts in the local supermarket parking lot - sadly, she had to join the union. One day, we were at Target, and she noticed the kid doing the same (non union) job had a battery powered trolley, that made the process much more efficient. “Gee Daddy, I wonder why we don’t have one of those?” she asked. “Because machines don’t pay union dues” was my reply. BTW, in a year of working that job, she came to loathe unions more than she had in the previous 16 years living under my roof ;)
Oh, the CB radio will be around as long as there are low techie knuckle draggers like me around.
**He didn’t stop at a roadside diner, though.**
...and tell a bunch of stories to other drivers that were probably just tall tales (one reason that I avoid the diners most of the time). The truck stops would go broke not selling all the junkfood and pop that they do now.
The local airport has ten agplanes spraying fungicide on cornfields in west central IL this week. I wonder how long before farmers will have their own uav to handle that chore.
Every time you get your car washed, your lawn mowed, have your house cleaned, get something fixed around the house, drop your clothes off at the cleaners, etc...
We do all those things ourselves.
I think my window of opportunity of having my own business in my field is shut tight.
I'm not trying to make you mad. And I don't know what the answer is. I would like to see them ship about 25 million people back where they came from. And lock the gate.
Most. Class A drivers are NOT union. The pay is low with long hours.
I am sorry liberals have ruined this great nation. I too would love to deport about 50 million people and lock the doors forever.
IMO, if we last thru obama and they put in another like him there will be a tipping point.
Yes, the same device. Where my daughter worked, they were limited to five carts, at a time. That video showed well over 50 !
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.