Re:Google Brings in Chief for Self-Driving Cars
by ma2rten on Monday September 14, 2015 @12:27PM
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And don't forget the economic impact. Think about all those people whos job it is to drive: truck drivers, bus drivers, taxi drivers.
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Re:Google Brings in Chief for Self-Driving Cars
by peatmoss on Monday September 14, 2015 @05:19PM
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This is a real problem that society is going to need to solve. But the safety and environmental upsides of replacing human drivers are going to be huge too. I certainly hope the market creates new opportunities for displaced blue-collar workers, but I'm not optimistic on that point.
Short of utopian sounding solutions like the basic wage, I'm really not sure how our economy will take care of people as we automate more and more formerly manual tasks.