Posted on 05/16/2016 10:59:11 PM PDT by Trumpinator
Mark Harris 2 hrs ago
The Man Who Built Google’s First Self-Driving Car Is Now a Trucker
A group of ex-Google engineers have just launched Otto, an autonomous trucking startup
Otto’s first vehicle is twice as long and six times as heavy as Google’s cute prototype car, but has exactly the same number of drivers: zero.
Founded by four ex-Google engineers — including Anthony Levandowski, the man who built Google’s very first self-driving car — Otto is applying Google’s all-or-nothing approach to commercial big rigs: ditch human drivers, avoid thousands of road deaths, help the environment, and if all goes well, make a ton of money along the way.
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There comes a point where I don’t want something to be automated. This one of those times. If the GPS goes down the economy stops. We need trains, planes trucks and automobiles to have actual drivers
They all did and they all were successful. I think 6 of them entered fields other than plumbing.
They probably will still have truckers, because there is no guarantee what a robot might do. But they are looking at reducing how many will be needed. If they can, by reducing human involvement, lengthen the time a person is involved by the wheel, by even just an hour, that’s billions of dollars saved over the long haul.
The stories I’ve seen on this that they will only need drivers in towns not on the open roads. These things would cost millions of jobs
Freightliner has been testing their Inspiration self driving rig in Nevada. It’s much easier to absorb the cost of full automation in a $200,000 vehicle than in a car. It’s getting to the point where technology and software are ready to go, the friction is with insurance and legislation.
What Google wants will be passed.
That would be the eventual plan, but not for another 50 years. There cannot be room for error in this.
Should be no problem at all to get insurance for an automated vehicle barreling down I-80 grossing 78000 lb at 70 mph.
No problem what so ever....
It is essential the the psychopathic super-elite sodomites (Satanists) have a world where they can kill billions, as George Bernard Shaw and many other Fabian Socialists desired: the get control of the herd (top down EVERYTHING) so the sheeple can be herded and culled— they will kill off billions.
That is the elites “plan” —to kill billions and save Mother Earth—and plan blood sacrifices—baby killing ceremonies with sodomy Rites with children on their alters (Ba’al Worship/He/She goat god).
Satan hates mankind, esp. happy families, and as soon as the elites can function—run their wars with drones, etc...they can start the real culling which started with WWI to create a dumbed-down fatherless world (the moral/best males killed)—so dumbed-down state-raised, women-dominated children would be so irrational, so removed from Reality and Truth and Natural Law (Logic), they will be just ignorant sheeple, and “help” make themselves obsolete—although they “think” the Leftists will “save” them and their “partner” for the NWO.
But the joke is on all the ones who “help” facilitate this new totalitarian world like the Paul Ryan’s, McCain’s, Bushes, Clintons.....they will be the first killed—tee hee—when the psychopaths get all their toys in a row and total control of everything and everybody which is just around the corner..
Well these are ex-Google at Otto. But virtually every big name in high tech is working on self driving vehicles so the investment is huge. Convincing insurers to write policies is probably the main sticking point at this stage.
I suspect that we are going to find that accidents will go down with automated trucks. These things are loaded with redundant sensors and cameras and computing power. They won’t get sleepy or ill or distracted and will have “eyes” looking in every direction.
More importantly the trucks won’t be texting or checking Facebook.
Yawn. Automated vehicles are still many years away from being deployed en masse. And replacing all human drivers will take decades.
Assuming we still have a free-market economy by then, there will be new jobs supplanting those ‘lost’ to automation.
People who don't want to face the future fall back on that nonsense. The jobs that will exist will pay crap for the vast majority with some good paying job and fewer high paying jobs.
or mechanics. There will be big money for mechanics for these early driverless cars. I hope to switch from heavy equipment to
an auto mechanic as soon as these driverless cars roll out for that reason.
That maybe a growth field until robots :)
It was true of the Industrial Revolution, it was true with the rise of computing, and there’s no reason to believe it won’t be true with the proliferation of robotics.
But go ahead and ignore economic history if you’d like.
There will be fewer accidents with these cars, so less demand for auto repair from crashes. They will still need maintenance though. Some gas stations may switch back to having gas station attendants, which is the only driving related job category that I can see increasing from this.
There are no jobs that cannot be eventually automated, it’s only a matter of time and figuring out the processes needed to do that.
At some point, they will figure out from the garden to the plate how to remove humans from the process completely in everything.
We are in uncharted territory and a paradigm shift. We have more people every day and less good paying jobs. The industrial revolution needed more workers to m eet m ore demand. When you have robots and drones providing the labor they jobs created will be less than the jobs lost.
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