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Re:Will automation put an end to the American trucker?
by ada1981 on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @11:03PM
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Exactly. Truckers with AR-15s aren't going to stand a chance against the robotic police force...
Re:Will automation put an end to the American trucker?
by ada1981 on Thursday October 12, 2017 @06:55AM
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Come to think of it, this would make a good comic or sci-fi film.
A mob of former truckers, farmers and Uber drivers armed with bump-stocked AR-15's wearing Make America Analog Again hats and fueled on pillaged Soylent trying to overtake Silicon Valley and having to fight through an army of Teslas, Otto, Boston Dynamics, Weaponized Amazon Drones, etc.
I'm generally an optimistic person, but I think autonomous driving is going to seriously disrupt our societies. I simply cannot see where the huge workforce of unskilled males driving trucks and taxis is going to be soaked up. The industrial revolution did it last time, but anything you can suggest as a potential equivalent (colonising Mars?) will be demanding smart flexible people - and an awful lot of automated systems.
I'm picking the mass unemployment will lead to civil war in the US (where all those unskilled males have semi automatic guns) and universal basic incomes in more civilised countries.