lol
more union jobs down the drain !
couldn’t have happened to a more deserving bunch !
when you make it more affordable to choose an alternative to your overpriced union wages, companies will do so.
Ban unions, cut employee regulations, and remove the minimum wage and companies will gladly switch back to human labor.
So. What will become of the C. B. radio?
Ya sure. Canada just banned one-man train crews in the wake of that runaway oil train disaster in Quebec.
Of course, robotrucks are a great way to social-engineer automobile drivers off the roads too . . .
I like it. Machines that make themselves, fix themselves and operate themselves. The biggest consumers on the planet will be machines and no more need for pesky humans.
“Over the next two decades.”
Easy to make a prediction like that. In 20 years no one will remember it.
More people have to be turned into submissive sheep before that can happen.
Reason? Because it won’t be just self-driving cars. The all-knowing government will have dictated how they function in minute detail, in such a way that the cars function as part of the collectivity, rather than as individual driving machines, as they do now.
What will it take to make people give up the independence of the private car? It’s the last bit of independence we have.
You can be sure the government will fight dirty to get us there.
It is not a safety issue that keeps engineers behind the controls on trains - many of the worse train accidents are blamed on the engineers themselves and automated systems likely would have prevented those accidents from happening.
So if we can't even maintain driverless trains, why would driverless trucks be the ‘next step’?
Mind, Australia really lends itself to autonomous transport - road trains are common, long stretches of road with little general interaction. But that is a massively far cry from a big rig traveling down the urban highway.
But if you were going to bet on this technology, I'd put money into depots and not the technology itself. Especially in the United States, there are limited corridors which lend themselves to autonomous trucks, at least at the start. And buying land with the intention of developing transition depots to transfer autonomous loads to trucks with human drivers for final mile delivery would seem to be the much safer and ultimately more profitable bet.
Will this cause an increase in robot lot lizards?
Wait just a minute. They can start working on driverless trucks just as soon as I get that flying car they promised.
What could possibly go wrong?
In other news, a startling new discovery means that a cure for cancer is just around the corner.
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.
Well, I’m still waiting for nuclear powered flying cars and freeways under the sea.
GET ROBOTS TO DO THE JOBS THE MEXICANS COME HERE TO DO!!!
Will the OS be “Skynet”?