Re:American truck drivers could lose their jobs to robots
by Razengan on Monday August 08, 2016 @07:41AM
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> The current shift is replacing both muscle and brainpower. Outside of creative jobs, what is left for the human to do?
Guarding the robots.
Face it; self-driving cars and trucks are going to be a HUGE target of vandalism and theft at first, especially for people who're made unemployed by them and can't find other jobs.
You're gonna need other people to keep them safe, and carrying guns doesn't require a lot of retraining in the US at least.
Those soon-to-be-out-of-work drivers may very well be required to tag along with the upcoming robot-vehicles anyway, to sit in them as guards and protect them from the rioting Luddites.
Until we can make robotic clones of Arnold Schwarzenegger to automate this as well, that is.
Guarding the robots.
Face it; self-driving cars and trucks are going to be a HUGE target of vandalism and theft at first, especially for people who're made unemployed by them and can't find other jobs.
You're gonna need other people to keep them safe, and carrying guns doesn't require a lot of retraining in the US at least.
Those soon-to-be-out-of-work drivers may very well be required to tag along with the upcoming robot-vehicles anyway, to sit in them as guards and protect them from the rioting Luddites.
Until we can make robotic clones of Arnold Schwarzenegger to automate this as well, that is.