They already exist. Just a matter of fine tuning them for the market.
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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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.
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.
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.
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!
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’.
“So. What will become of the C. B. radio?”
And the coin operated beavers?
Well, I’m still waiting for nuclear powered flying cars and freeways under the sea.
Freeway under the sea? See chunnel, England to France.
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.
I believe those were known as ‘butlers’ and in some parts ‘husbands’.
Do they allow cars? And it’s supposed to be a transparent tube so you can see the underwater scenery.
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.
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?
They already exist. Just a matter of fine tuning them for the market.
BTW Our Civil War was over state’s rights, not slavery.
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.
GET ROBOTS TO DO THE JOBS THE MEXICANS COME HERE TO DO!!!
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