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I'm pro self-driving cars. But you have to admit, there's going to be riots in the streets when it's no longer economical to pay a human to drive a trunk/taxi.

I'm pro self-driving cars. But you have to admit, there's going to be riots in the streets when it's no longer economical to pay a human to drive a trunk/taxi. Look at the protest people have over Uber, and they're not even destroying jobs, they're just moving them from one place to another. And already you can see that non-trivial parts of society can't handle that. There's going to be protests, poverty and chaos, and eventually the market will redistribute the workforce but short of a major welfare program like 'basic income' I don't think we can have any illusion of this being a soft transition.

forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> But you have to admit, there's going to be riots in the streets when it's no longer economical to pay a human to drive a trunk/taxi. Why would there be riots in the streets for self-driving cars in particular? Like when there were riots for the assembly-line or the tractor? There will be riots for education, healthcare and opportunity - and probably there should be. Technological progress of civilization should be something more meaningful than the rich getting richer.
- alexbeloi 10y ago
  >Like when there were riots for the assembly-line or the tractor? Yes, exactly like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-loom_riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-loom_riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Riots