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Its going to get worse. When cars and trucks drive themselves we'll see the loss of millions of jobs.

talideon 12y ago
You might be interested in CGP Grey's 'Humans Need Not Apply' video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
walterbell 12y ago
That may take a while, http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/10/google_self_driving_car_it_may_never_actually_happen.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/10/... "But the maps have problems, starting with the fact that the car can’t travel a single inch without one ... all 4 million miles of U.S. public roads will be need to be mapped, plus driveways, off-road trails, and everywhere else you'd ever want to take the car. So far, only a few thousand miles of road have gotten the treatment .., The company frequently says that its car has driven more than 700,000 miles safely, but those are the same few thousand mapped miles, driven over and over again."
- nl 12y ago
  The vast majority of professional driving is done on predictable routes, from a port to a warehouse or from one warehouse to another.
  - tomarr 12y ago
    Routes aren't infallible though, diversions occur because of predicable (planned maintenance) and unpredictable (crashes or weather incidents), and diversion routes may vary significantly. Not an insurmountable problem - may even just be able to park the vehicle where a diversion route is unknown and wait for it to clear, but still an issue to deal with.
  - walterbell 12y ago
    As the article explains, it's not about the predictability of the route, but of obstacles and changes along on the route.
enraged_camel 12y ago
I'm looking forward to it. You read that correctly. The sooner we have a huge portion of the population become unemployed and unable to find other work (because all similar unskilled labor is automated), the sooner we can start to seriously reconsider the notion that everyone must have a job. I predict that the day automated driving becomes the norm is the day the first unconditional basic income bill is debated in Congress.
eli_gottlieb 12y ago
Good. It's about time. We really ought to be working to bring this about: people should be freed from their godawful jobs to do something enjoyable and meaningful with their lives.

You might be interested in CGP Grey's 'Humans Need Not Apply' video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

walterbell 12y ago

That may take a while, http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/10/google_self_driving_car_it_may_never_actually_happen.html http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/10/... "But the maps have problems, starting with the fact that the car can’t travel a single inch without one ... all 4 million miles of U.S. public roads will be need to be mapped, plus driveways, off-road trails, and everywhere else you'd ever want to take the car. So far, only a few thousand miles of road have gotten the treatment .., The company frequently says that its car has driven more than 700,000 miles safely, but those are the same few thousand mapped miles, driven over and over again."

nl 12y ago
The vast majority of professional driving is done on predictable routes, from a port to a warehouse or from one warehouse to another.
- tomarr 12y ago
  Routes aren't infallible though, diversions occur because of predicable (planned maintenance) and unpredictable (crashes or weather incidents), and diversion routes may vary significantly. Not an insurmountable problem - may even just be able to park the vehicle where a diversion route is unknown and wait for it to clear, but still an issue to deal with.
- walterbell 12y ago
  As the article explains, it's not about the predictability of the route, but of obstacles and changes along on the route.

enraged_camel 12y ago

I'm looking forward to it. You read that correctly. The sooner we have a huge portion of the population become unemployed and unable to find other work (because all similar unskilled labor is automated), the sooner we can start to seriously reconsider the notion that everyone must have a job. I predict that the day automated driving becomes the norm is the day the first unconditional basic income bill is debated in Congress.

eli_gottlieb 12y ago

Good. It's about time. We really ought to be working to bring this about: people should be freed from their godawful jobs to do something enjoyable and meaningful with their lives.