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(09-01-2017, 01:09 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Yeah, don't use truckers as an example. Those jobs will be gone soon, gone the way of self-driving vehicles.

(09-01-2017, 01:19 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Yeah, but that ain't stopping them. Those long haul routes will be automated as soon as they can. They'll stage drivers outside of cities and everything because navigating urban traffic and roads will be more difficult to solve for, but those long hauls will be the first driverless vehicles we see in this country. As soon as it happens, all the big box stores will switch to it immediately.

Except that then there will be an enormous demand for armed guards after tons of driverless semis get hijacked or broken into mid-drive, and the cost of those armed guards to ride in them would more or less make the automation savings vanish.

Same thing will happen if that whole drone delivery thing comes to fruition. There will be a lot of stolen drones and packages.