Posted on 02/21/2017 7:27:06 AM PST by plain talk
The U.S. military is very likely to pursue forms of automation that reduce back-office costs over time, as well as remove soldiers from non-combat deployments where they might face risk from adversaries on fluid battlefields, such as in transportation.
Driver-less vehicles poised to take taxi, train and truck driver jobs in the civilian sector also could nab many combat-support slots in the Army.
Robots will continue to replace the dirty, dull and dangerous jobs, and this will affect typically more uneducated and unskilled workers, said Henrik Christensen, director of the Institute for Contextual Robotics at UC San Diego. You need to look at the mundane things. Logistics tasks will not be solved by people driving around in trucks. Instead, you will have fewer drivers. The lead driver in a convoy might be human, but every truck following behind will not be. The jobs that are the most boring will be the ones that get replaced because theyre the easiest to automate.
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True, but will the true believers give up their trip to paradise and all those virgins to a robot or driverless vehicle?
I agree with you...driverless vehicles to me are a joke...or diversion.
Also true of Dresden as I understand...
What else for ya today?
Yep, it never did make sense to have a Jessica Lynch driving around in a combat zone.
Automation will help to invalidate the phony excuses for having women in combat arms.
Put Killer robots on the border wall—programed to kill all humans who try to cross—man, woman, child, dog, etc... Gort with a machine gun! Only then will the wall be uncrossible.
You raise good points. I think eventually drive-less cars will be used for everything including school buses if they still exist in that time frame. However I think that is much further off than the hype. Much much further out in time.
It’s a matter of timing. The picturephone was around in the 1960s and then it was thought it would take off but it didn’t. Now 50 years later we have it on cell phones.
and put ZIPPO SHOTGUNS for each bo to use.
Let the driverless car take Jack and Jill to school and pick them up in the afternoon?'
It's not like we pay top dollar to part time school bus drivers. I always found it fascinating that we pay so little to people who take care of the most precious things we have in life and trust them to do it.
How about micro-robots that are designed to take out a nuke plant.
We need a sci-fi writer on this one.
In many cases we might replace the drivers and add a couple of armed guards. I don’t think all these seers and futurists have really worked out how valuable cargo will be safeguarded in driverless vehicles or drones.
Online computer systems have been common since the early ‘90s and we still have not learned to adequately secure them from hackers and malware. And practically any driverless vehicle will have some central control and tracking, and therefore be hackable.
Yep, and some will want to switch to driverless school buses to save a little more.
I love your imagination—what an idea! It sounds like a riveting Hollywood thriller, providing they would do it as entertainment and not as a political statement.
Hi all,
will be going into surgery this morning and will be back in hopefully a few days when I’ll get back in touch. If not, then thanks for all your continuing support. I remain
Most sincerely yours.
Take care and God Bless,
Danny
Prayers for a good outcome and a quick recovery, Daniel.
Thanks Danny and I pray God will help you through this.
Somebody should also warn the nurses about you.
Take care.
Well, there was a problem and my surgery will be delayed a week. So, it is eat, drink, repeat until next Wednesday at 6 AM.
Take care and God Bless,
Danny
Still time to warn those nurses.
:)
OK ... you obviously don’t like me enough to tell me what’s going on ... so ... what’s going on?
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