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Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company by munificent on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @04:45PM (#13171383)
It's not that taxi drivers and truckers are going to become obsolete tomorrow. It's that that happening is such a huge cultural and economic change that we need to start planning for it today if we're going to not destroy the livelihood of millions of people when those industries do become obsolete in five or ten years.
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Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company by Fricken on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @05:41PM (#13171894)
About 20 million jobs disappeared in America last year, although there was a net gain in jobs overall. This is going on all the time.

So if all of America's 11 million professional driving jobs were to disappear over the span of a decade, it would be a blip, not an apocalypse.

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