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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

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Post by poke111 »

anoother wrote: post #8
aphextron wrote: post #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?

Serious question -- why not? What makes this a bad idea?

Because you create wealth by producing goods and services. Jobs are a cost, not the end goal. Sacrificing production for jobs gets it exactly backwards and makes us, in the aggregate, poorer, even though it makes a few people richer.

Re: India will ban driverless cars in order to protect jobs

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Post by poke111 »

anoother wrote: post #8
aphextron wrote: post #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?

Serious question -- why not? What makes this a bad idea?

Because you create wealth by producing goods and services. Jobs are a cost, not the end goal. Sacrificing production for jobs gets it exactly backwards and makes us, in the aggregate, poorer, even though it makes a few people richer.

Re: India will ban driverless cars in order to protect jobs

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Post by hossbeast »

bsder wrote: post #11
aphextron wrote: post #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?

Oh, so letting an economy go into free-fall recession is good for people? Once self-driving cars hit, the switch will be immediate and massive . I would predict 10% to 90% penetration in probably less than 12 months--the limitation will simply be building the cars fast enough. That's a lot of people suddenly with no income. Protecting people against that disruption for 50 years? Probably a bad idea. Protecting people…

People are also it's beneficiaries

Re: India will ban driverless cars in order to protect jobs

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Post by danenania »

bsder wrote: post #11
aphextron wrote: post #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?

Oh, so letting an economy go into free-fall recession is good for people? Once self-driving cars hit, the switch will be immediate and massive . I would predict 10% to 90% penetration in probably less than 12 months--the limitation will simply be building the cars fast enough. That's a lot of people suddenly with no income. Protecting people against that disruption for 50 years? Probably a bad idea. Protecting people…

"Once self-driving cars hit, the switch will be immediate and massive. I would predict 10% to 90% penetration in probably less than 12 months--the limitation will simply be building the cars fast enough. That's a lot of people suddenly with no income."

It will probably take 12 months just to form the exploratory committee that will form the actual committee that will even begin to consider legalizing fully driverless cars.

This change involves many levels of government bureaucracy. It will happen, but it's definitely not going to be "immediate".

Re: India will ban driverless cars in order to protect jobs

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Post by Miner49er »

I hope this doesn't set any sort of precedent. This is extremely short-sighted. Jobs will be lost, but we should look for real solutions that don't slow down the improvement of quality of life or the advancement of the human race in general. Maybe basic income?

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Post by [deleted] »

bsder wrote: post #11
aphextron wrote: post #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?

Oh, so letting an economy go into free-fall recession is good for people? Once self-driving cars hit, the switch will be immediate and massive . I would predict 10% to 90% penetration in probably less than 12 months--the limitation will simply be building the cars fast enough. That's a lot of people suddenly with no income. Protecting people against that disruption for 50 years? Probably a bad idea. Protecting people…

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Re: India will ban driverless cars in order to protect jobs

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Post by taneq »

anoother wrote: post #8
aphextron wrote: post #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?

Serious question -- why not? What makes this a bad idea?

Because it's busywork, and it's wasting all those peoples' time. It's strictly inferior to letting a few workers use machinery to do the job, while paying the rest of the workers to sit around idle, because when using machinery you can rapidly increase output if required and the idle workers have the option to find something more useful to do.

Re: India will ban driverless cars in order to protect jobs

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Post by rgbrenner »

theprop wrote: post #20

What a complete idiot in soooo many ways...now you can understand the situation of India's development when such utter morons are "leaders" of India! India actually needs driverless cars more desperately than any country in the world given it's world-leading 200,000 fatalities every year.

China had 260k: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...

If you sort that by per 100k people or vehicles, India isn't doing too badly. They just have a lot of people.

Re: India will ban driverless cars in order to protect jobs

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Post by craptocurrency »

aphextron wrote: post #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?

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