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Daddy, What Was a Truck Driver?
Wall Street Journal ^ | July 23, 2013 | DENNIS K. BERMAN

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.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: autonomousvehicles; transport; trucking; unmannedvehicles
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To: TexasFreeper2009

I am waiting for the robot lease. I want one who does windows and weeds the garden as well as does general housework. If it could drive a car, too, that would be fine.


42 posted on 07/27/2013 11:49:41 AM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: jttpwalsh
Where my daughter worked, they were limited to five carts, at a time. That video showed well over 50 !

One of the manufacturers claims "only one employee is needed to retrieve up to 25 carts at a time". A retaining strap goes around the carts. The human leads the way, controlling the pusher with a remote.

43 posted on 07/27/2013 11:54:22 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: JerseyanExile

How soon then, can we have robotic teachers? What about university lecturers? TA’s? Proooofessoors?

Then, why send your kid off to the ‘U’ to be returned to you on holidays as a young New Soviet Yute?

Why not have the in-home ‘bot from the youngest child that will be able to ‘teach’ at different levels of education?

Don’t we essentially have ‘bots in the classrooms today spilling out their leftist bile?

This way, you could program your ‘bot to indoctrinate your children with your own ideology and world view.

What’s not to like?

My own schadenfreude envisions hundreds of thousand of public school ‘bots laid off, or their pensions cut to the level of the ‘lower classes’ that pay the taxes to support them.


44 posted on 07/27/2013 11:59:47 AM PDT by x1stcav ("The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.")
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To: TexasFreeper2009

I kept getting emails from some guy in India wanting to do work for me. Finally, I asked him what he would charge and he said a dollar an hour.

I’ve been using this guy for odd jobs like data entry, etc for a couple of months now!


45 posted on 07/27/2013 12:01:49 PM PDT by MNDude (The system worked!)
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To: cynwoody

I am guessing their lawyer advised them to make that claim ;)
If the kid at Target pushes 25 carts, I bet they’d consider that to be ‘slacking off’.


46 posted on 07/27/2013 12:10:50 PM PDT by jttpwalsh
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To: reg45

“So. What will become of the C. B. radio?”

And the coin operated beavers?


47 posted on 07/27/2013 12:20:59 PM PDT by Rannug ("God has given it to me, let him who touches it beware.")
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To: JerseyanExile

Well, I’m still waiting for nuclear powered flying cars and freeways under the sea.


48 posted on 07/27/2013 12:26:48 PM PDT by Hugin (')
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To: Hugin

Freeway under the sea? See chunnel, England to France.


49 posted on 07/27/2013 12:27:56 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: DownInFlames

When trucking was deregulated in 1980, it signaled the end of union dominance in trucking.

I’d guess the Teamsters (much like the UAW) actually have most of their members in occupations other than the industry they were originally founded to represent.


50 posted on 07/27/2013 12:28:33 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: reformedliberal

I believe those were known as ‘butlers’ and in some parts ‘husbands’.


51 posted on 07/27/2013 12:29:03 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: MHGinTN

Do they allow cars? And it’s supposed to be a transparent tube so you can see the underwater scenery.


52 posted on 07/27/2013 12:31:36 PM PDT by Hugin (')
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To: bigheadfred
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.

Bet you can't name that war, or even reference the period of time it happened.

BTW, our Civil War was over slavery, not servanthood.

53 posted on 07/27/2013 12:32:54 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (When America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: bigheadfred
We can't afford to eat out.

So now we know the real reason you are slinging around the term "elitist." You are unsuccessful in life and therefore envy those that are and you resent them for it.

Everybody that has more than you is an "elitist." I believe that is the root of Marxism by the way. You are a "from each according to his ability, to each according to their need" type of person aren't you?

54 posted on 07/27/2013 12:41:26 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: reg45
Does anyone still use “children's band?”
55 posted on 07/27/2013 12:57:42 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Don't assume Shahanshah Obama will allow another election.)
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To: eartrumpet
Will this cause an increase in robot lot lizards?

They already exist. Just a matter of fine tuning them for the market.


56 posted on 07/27/2013 1:06:58 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Don't assume Shahanshah Obama will allow another election.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

BTW Our Civil War was over state’s rights, not slavery.


57 posted on 07/27/2013 1:25:50 PM PDT by SisterK (RIP America)
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To: MHGinTN

The husband also wants a robot for various chores. Ability to stack firewood a priority.

They also used to be called teenagers, but the current crop isn’t interested in hard labor or doing a great job.


58 posted on 07/27/2013 1:39:54 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: JerseyanExile

GET ROBOTS TO DO THE JOBS THE MEXICANS COME HERE TO DO!!!


60 posted on 07/27/2013 1:41:33 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (Maybe we DON'T wish to keep our Republic, Mr. Franklin!)
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