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Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings by imglorp on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @06:15PM (#12169126)
And two more bubbles: long haul trucking and taxis.

Getting rid of drivers is a high priority for that industry. Human drivers are expensive and they can only drive 70 hours a week. [1]

Oh, and Uber is dying to get rid of all its drivers too. [2]

1. https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/new-hours-servi...

2. http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/01/27/how-ubers-autono...

Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings by city41 on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @06:31PM (#12169234)
In a sense, the damage Uber and Lyft have already done to Taxis was a boon for them. They get some extra heads up that their industry is probably going to become defunct.
Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings by ValleyOfTheMtns on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @07:24PM (#12169466)
AND public transport, particularly buses, but I'm sure trams/trains will eventually be automated too.
Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings by larvyde on Thursday July 28, 2016 @01:36AM (#12178530)
A lot of trains already are...
Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings by iaw on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @07:40PM (#12169555)
Maritime shipping...
Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings by dredmorbius on Friday July 29, 2016 @05:55AM (#12185815)
Shipping is already tremendously automated. The remnants are most difficult, and the environment is difficult and has some particularly bad failure modes.

There are numerous tasks shipboard which aren't readily automated, and once you have one person aboard, you tend to need more (cooks, maintenance, multiple shifts, mechanics, etc.).

The reduction in employment in shipping since the 1950s, particularly relative to cargo handled, is already immense, much of that from containerisation though.

Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings by imglorp on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @11:27AM (#12173581)
Yeah, good point, ships are pretty automated. But ships really do need crews for constant maintenance and supervision. You can put the helm on autopilot but that's about all it can do.

Now, let's talk about this again when someone makes a decent R2 unit.