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Drivers are cheap. Eliminating them won't yield much. Improved safety will be the biggest gain The article cites $40k average pay per driver. That's fast-food wages
>The article cites $40k average pay per driver. That's fast-food wages Not really. That's basically $20/hour full-time.
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I am pretty sure Luddites had very similar arguments back in the 19th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite If you look back at it, they were on the wrong side of history/argument. Automation is going to keep going, no matter what, and it is mostly a good thing. Yes, we might have few years of uneasy adjustment times, but things will sort themselves out on the long run. Think of it, one modern excavator is m…
Viewed from another perspective the Luddites were self employed, worked from home, and set their own hours. They didn't want to work 8 to 8 in a dangerous factory for a rich guy.
Yeah, I've been thinking lately as well, why are we doing that? I mean as a society? (I recall a phrase said by someone, that we are consciously building a future nobody wants to live in.) What exactly are we getting from that? Ultra-rich, namely car companies owners and shareholders, will become even more rich. (Why are they doing it, by the way, don't they have enough super-cars, mansions, yachts already?) What am…
If it's just to keep busy, then yeah, we should stop technological advancement.
Yeah, I've been thinking lately as well, why are we doing that? I mean as a society? (I recall a phrase said by someone, that we are consciously building a future nobody wants to live in.) What exactly are we getting from that? Ultra-rich, namely car companies owners and shareholders, will become even more rich. (Why are they doing it, by the way, don't they have enough super-cars, mansions, yachts already?) What am…
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> And there are "comfort gimmicks" like ... toasters
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One of these things is more important and useful to the ordinary person's life than the other, and it's not throwing computers at the stars.
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I think what you are missing is the fact that this time the changes will take place much faster. With farming, the changes were slower and generational.(The children of farmers didn't do farming). And still these changes had colossal impact on societies(and a lot of blood was spilled).
Humans have a tendency to always think "it's different this time". Trucking won't disappear overnight.
It might not disappear overnight but it sure as hell isn't going to take 150 years!
Vox writers should be more worried than drivers. Driving a car, dealing with other users on the road, making regulators happy are all difficult problems. Meanwhile, I have already seen Reddit bots which summarise submissions. How far off are from one that will rehash 2-3 articles and toss in an infographic (created elsewhere)?
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Drivers are cheap. Eliminating them won't yield much. Improved safety will be the biggest gain The article cites $40k average pay per driver. That's fast-food wages
>The article cites $40k average pay per driver. That's fast-food wages Not really. That's basically $20/hour full-time.
I bet developers will start to lose jobs to AI. Maybe before truck drivers do. The reaction here on HN will be something to behold.
Yeah, I've been thinking lately as well, why are we doing that? I mean as a society? (I recall a phrase said by someone, that we are consciously building a future nobody wants to live in.) What exactly are we getting from that? Ultra-rich, namely car companies owners and shareholders, will become even more rich. (Why are they doing it, by the way, don't they have enough super-cars, mansions, yachts already?) What am…
Meaning all Americans get a 7% raise.
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or... decreased shipping costs will go into the pockets of the business owners as additional profits. Since I'm already used to paying $X for that, why would you necessarily cut that out when you can keep it? Just another possibility.
Because a competitor will come along and do so
Relying on abstract economic theories about market efficiency is stupid when you're literally watching this happen all around us.