India will ban driverless cars in order to protect jobs
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Re: India will ban driverless cars in order to protect jobs
#2"We won't allow any technology that takes away jobs. In a country where you have unemployment, you can't have a technology that ends up taking people's jobs"
I guess we should spin up the weaving looms when the next recession hits?
Re: India will ban driverless cars in order to protect jobs
#3"We won't allow any technology that takes away jobs. In a country where you have unemployment, you can't have a technology that ends up taking people's jobs" I guess we should spin up the weaving looms when the next recession hits?
Horse and buggies too, think of the carriage and whip makers!
Re: India will ban driverless cars in order to protect jobs
#4India's exports have to compete against those of other countries. If India places itself at a competitive disadvantage as this Transportation official proposes they will lose sales and thus jobs.
Sure they can manipulate the currency but that places a tax on what everyone buys from overseas and lowers standards of living.
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Re: India will ban driverless cars in order to protect jobs
#6Forget the part about protecting jobs, how confident will the driverless cars companies be even otherwise, sending their cars out into the chaotic traffic in India, where you routinely share the road with bicycles, motorcycles, scooters, rickshaws, handcarts, buses, lorries (trucks), cows and the occasional sheep and donkeys?
Related video => [2006] India Driving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjrEQaG5jPM
Re: India will ban driverless cars in order to protect jobs
#7You could see this as political posturing by the transport minister. As the article mentions, with the state of India's roads, it was unlikely that it was going to be getting self-driving cars in the short-term. Banning them now, and removing the ban once the technology becomes feasible for India's environment is very possible.
Re: India will ban driverless cars in order to protect jobs
#8"We won't allow any technology that takes away jobs. In a country where you have unemployment, you can't have a technology that ends up taking people's jobs" I guess we should spin up the weaving looms when the next recession hits?
Serious question -- why not? What makes this a bad idea?
Re: India will ban driverless cars in order to protect jobs
#9"We won't allow any technology that takes away jobs. In a country where you have unemployment, you can't have a technology that ends up taking people's jobs" I guess we should spin up the weaving looms when the next recession hits?
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Re: India will ban driverless cars in order to protect jobs
#10Leaders of the current govt. were in opposition when they opposed IT and telecommunication revolution in the late 80s for the fear of job losses. The opposition didn't succeed back then and India could become a software outsourcing giant in the coming years.