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Re:California passes bill that classifies gig economy worker... by buboard on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @08:27AM (#20939281)
Driver robots? See you in 20 years

Its more likely you ll see drivers forming shell contractor companies so they can still work for both uber and lyft etc

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Re:California passes bill that classifies gig economy worker... by 0xffff2 on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @04:32PM (#20944358)
20 years is optimistic. Real fully autonomous self-driving cars will arrive 10 years after fusion power becomes commercially viable.
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Re:California passes bill that classifies gig economy worker... by buboard on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @04:54PM (#20944581)
haha. well i m hopeful that if we change the roads we can at least have autonomous train-cars or at least kiva robots with seats
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Re:California passes bill that classifies gig economy worker... by DeonPenny on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @01:10PM (#20942393)
Yeh this has happened in a lot of other countries. It's why this won't affect google. Cause they hire companies that hire contractors.
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