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Pretty comical that it ended up being California regulation that would put truckers out of work instead of Silicon Valley automation.
by bhupy 7y ago
Pretty comical that it ended up being California regulation that would put truckers out of work instead of Silicon Valley automation.
- thrower123 7y agoI mean, if I had to lay bets, I'd give astronomically better odds of California passing a dumb, counterproductive law than a difficult technological innovation.
- arcticbull 7y agoCalifornia is kinda the undisputed king of both.
- w-j-w 7y ago> out of work You don't sincerely believe that stuff will stop being delivered if this law passes, do you?
- wil421 7y agoWhat Silicon Valley companies have put workers out of a job since let’s say 2000? Some of the old companies have like HP and Intel certainly made certain office work redundant and to an extent Oracle. What does HN think?
- a3n 7y agoThey're working on it. As a trucker, I have no problem with automation. No one has the right to any specific job or career.
- wil421 7y agoSo no companies with viable products. Drone trucks that follow a real driver are more realistic than fully automated trucks. Everything I’ve seen from Tesla to GM’s cruise to the German luxury brands is just driver assist tech not self driving. Im asking about any company since 2000 or mid 1990s that has put people out of jobs. Netflix nope, Alphabet nope, Facebook never. Salesforce maybe some jobs. Here’s the SV 150 list.[1] Intel and HP killed paper pushing jobs that could be automated by computers. Adobe probably killed a lot of art departments. [1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/01/sv150-2017-ranking-of-silicon-valleys-top-150-public-tech-companies/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/01/sv150-2017-ranking-of...
- jogjayr 7y ago> Netflix Blockbuster employees' jobs?
- wil421 7y agoHa! I just said to my wife, don’t forget Netflix started as mail order DVDs and successfully pivoted to streaming. At Blockbuster’s height they employed 85k. The majority were high schoolers in my area.
- a3n 7y ago> Drone trucks that follow a real driver are more realistic than fully automated trucks. So the following trucks don't need the drivers that would drive them today. Things change. Not always the way we predict. I do expect much to be automated, not just trucking, because about everything else that is streamlinable seems to have been done, and companies or executives don't seem to be able to survive unless they find some way to cut costs. Status quo is not good enough. Automation is Checkov's gun on the wall. It will go off.
- aaronblohowiak 7y agoFacebook absolutely helped put local newspapers out of business.
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- ars 7y agoFarmers? Farms have become very automated, you need less people to do the same work.
- wil421 7y ago> What Silicon Valley companies have put workers out of a job since let’s say 2000? Push it back to the mid 1990s and answer the same question.
- thephyber 7y ago> that would put truckers out of work s/would/could/ It's still hypothetical at this point.