Self-driving taxis have officially landed in Las Vegas

[redqueen]

Link to tweet

A lot of people think that automation like this won't start affecting the labor market for many years. They are mistaken.

Right now only Yang is addressing an issue that is going to hit us sooner than most expect - and that is a problem.

[MineralMan]

1. Having driven many times in Vegas, I doubt this will work.

It's the only place I know where aggressive driving is absolutely necessary if you want to get anywhere at all. That's especially true on the Strip. I don't give self-driving vehicles any chance of success in that city.

[redqueen]

2. Time will tell! Think robot bartenders will also fail?

[OnDoutside]

3. Ah yes, a Russian tech car testing in the US. Makes sense....

[BannonsLiver]

7. Who knows what they're up to

But given that it’s Russia you can bet it’s something nefarious. The IP is probably stolen anyway. They never do anything on their own.

[gulliver]

4. Yang doesn't own the automation issue. Dems do.

And, as I have mentioned before, general purpose automated, autonomous driving is technically impossible prior to the existence of strong AI (at which point no one has jobs and we are competing with dogs and cats for status as preferred pet).

[Sherman A1]

5. Might I ask

What the other candidates are discussing regarding the coming of AI and it’s affects on the workplace? I haven’t heard anything perhaps you would be able to fill us in on this topic?

[gulliver]

6. Here's a link with video of Biden talking about truck driving automation.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2019/06/26/joe-bidens-ideas-to-help-the-middle-class/

Biden's take on it is interesting in that he points out that people such as truck drivers are listening and believe this to be true whether or not it actually is.

I like that take on it much, much better than Yang's. Yang appears to believe that automated truck driving is on its way soon. He says so here: https://www.facebook.com/andrewyang2020/videos/automated-truck-driving/638364076584385/. The trouble with that is that it ain't gonna happen. Automation is going to affect a whole lot of jobs, but not truck driving. (At least not the actual driving part.)

On edit: Here's one with Buttigieg talking about automation too. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-technology-202/2019/01/25/the-technology-202-here-s-how-2020-hopeful-pete-buttigieg-wants-to-help-workers-who-could-lose-jobs-to-ai/5c4a04b21b326b29c3778cb8/

And I'm not against UBI, BTW. I'd like to see how it would work though.

[Sherman A1]

9. I will watch the videos later on today after folks are up in the house

and noise is less of an issue, but I firmly believe that Yang is correct. There have already been automated trucks going from California to the Eastern states in test runs.

I worked 46 years in the Retail Sector and saw many good paying jobs automated away. I have no expectation that anything other than increased automation will be coming.

[TidalWave46]

8. More and more good news for this advancement. NT