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Did you see driverless trucking episode on 60 Minutes last night? Wow 300,000 jobs (Original Post) flying_wahini Mar 2020 OP
Yes. Newest Reality Mar 2020 #1
The jobs won't disappear Loki Liesmith Mar 2020 #2
If the autonomous rigs can do look long haul Sherman A1 Mar 2020 #7
its not just trucking, automation is going to completely transform the labor market in 5-10 years Amishman Mar 2020 #3
I don't think it will ever happen Mosby Mar 2020 #4
I disagree Sherman A1 Mar 2020 #6
This is just what Andrew Yang Sherman A1 Mar 2020 #5
I did see that Chainfire Mar 2020 #8

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
1. Yes.
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 01:04 PM
Mar 2020

I have seen several videos and read articles about automation/robotics/AI.

The real problem they are talking about, up there in the Elysium, is: what do you do when you have too many obsolete human beings?

I mean, what's the profit model here? If you have too many rabbits, what's the solution since they just keep breeding?

Oh, and we'll have none of that utopian, ideological leisure society and do what you love, that's for certain. UBI my ass!

Loki Liesmith

(4,602 posts)
2. The jobs won't disappear
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 01:05 PM
Mar 2020

They will decrease in number but the autonomous rigs are only good for the long haul part of a trip.

Probably autonomous convoys will require a human “sitter”.

Amishman

(5,541 posts)
3. its not just trucking, automation is going to completely transform the labor market in 5-10 years
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 01:06 PM
Mar 2020

self driving trucks
RFID driven store inventory and checkout
automated warehouses and shelf stocking
automated fast food
robotic cleaning and janitorial duties
robot fruit pickers
even most bookkeeping and clerical jobs

Yang was right, we need UBI
We also will need to aggressively retrain and reeducate those who are displaced to minimize the burden

I work on designing and implementing origination systems, so I am one of those building the tools that will do a lot of clerical / financial processing jobs.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
6. I disagree
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 01:38 PM
Mar 2020

As the lawyers will also be automated out of jobs by the AI which is already being developed.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
5. This is just what Andrew Yang
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 01:37 PM
Mar 2020

Was speaking to for his entire campaign. These jobs are going away along with the truck stop jobs that are often the major employer in roadside communities.

Chainfire

(17,312 posts)
8. I did see that
Mon Mar 16, 2020, 01:39 PM
Mar 2020

Maybe the automated trucks won't cut you off when they are supposed to yield at intersections or weave into your lane as you pass them.

This is a sign of progress, people have always worried about job losses from progress. After all, how many blacksmith shops are in your city?

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