Hello self-driving cars, goodbye 4.1 million jobs.. (Page 2): I cannot understand the desire for self driving cars. I really like to drive and unless they are on a separate roadway it...

Scott 42 Loc: Mid NC coast

I cannot understand the desire for self driving cars. I really like to drive and unless they are on a separate roadway it will be too dangerous. Already a death with a self driving car.

tdonaldp

Does this mean that all government cars would be driven for official use only? After all there would be a record of use

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

tdonaldp wrote:

Does this mean that all government cars would be driven for official use only? After all there would be a record of use

greymule Loc: Colorado

grillmaster5062 wrote:

Self driving vehicles and electric vehicles will never completely take over, because they will never be affordable to the average man or woman on the street. See how fast all of these alternative vehicles drop off the face of the earth when there are no government incentives to compel the consumer the buy and drive them.

It's not the President. It's the greedy corporations.

TheeGambler Loc: The green pastures of Northeast Texas

Progress eliminates the need for people! It also seems to be eliminating freedom! Everything we do is being monitored and recorded, so imagine, when we don't have the ability to roam freely. How much more control will our overseers have... First, it will be the driverless cars. Then it could be driverless cars with limited number of destinations. After that, it could be driverless cars programed to go only to "authorized destinations," depending on your status. In Agenda 21, it said that one goal was to limit the people's ability to travel (much easier to control a population that is not mobile.) Things like this happen in small baby-steps, getting the people used to big change, by increments. That way there is little objection. People just wake-up on day and find that they are without the freedom to travel where they please.. Cars for everyone are illegal, buying gas requires a permit.

chrisscholbe Loc: Kansas City, MO

dirtpusher wrote:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hello-self-driving-cars-goodbye-41-million-jobs-2016-09-15

An, unfortunate, fact of life is that technology replaces jobs.

At some point in our future, we will be able to sit back and read the paper??? while the car drives itself.
This has nothing to do with who is or isn't President.
It's gonna happen.
It's just a question of when.

The "real" question is, IMHO, as technology displaces more and more jobs, what do people do to earn a living?

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

chrisscholbe wrote:

An, unfortunate, fact of life is that technology replaces jobs.

At some point in our future, we will be able to sit back and read the paper??? while the car drives itself.
This has nothing to do with who is or isn't President.
It's gonna happen.
It's just a question of when.

The "real" question is, IMHO, as technology displaces more and more jobs, what do people do to earn a living?

Go on the government dole.

TheeGambler Loc: The green pastures of Northeast Texas

"The "real" question is, IMHO, as technology displaces more and more jobs, what do people do to earn a living?[/quote]

Possible answer to your question is that people won't need jobs. The population will be reduced in size as workload decreases.. Govey is not about feeding the useless, especially as govey gets control of our food, water, and healthcare. And, lets not forget the goal of the world using "digital money" controlled by govey and digital banks..

dirtpusher Loc: tulsa oklahoma

Almost half of those currently employed in the United States are at risk of being put out of work by automation in the next decade or two, according to a 2013 University of Oxford study, which identified transportation, logistics and administrative occupations as the most vulnerable.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/02/17/yes-the-robots-will-steal-our-jobs-and-thats-fine/?utm_term=.7896cb2c0272

rcl285

Old story about three engineers that rented a small car in some foreign country. While driving down the road, the car stopped dead, and wouldn't start. The mechanical engineer said that it was probably valves. The electrical engineer said it was more likely to be ignition. The computer engineer said, "let's all get out and get back in again."

bull drink water Loc: pontiac mi.

greymule wrote:

Welp. It's another blow for humans seeking jobs. Technology, office phone answering systems (press#1 for an office directory), security systems and cameras, frobots doing manufacturing work, self-checkouts at supermarkets, self pay at parking lots, drones for delivery, computer software, the internet, just a roll off a few without thinking too hard, have already eliminated millions of jobs. Here's more bad news from a CNN article-

Five million jobs in the world's leading economies could disappear over the next five years because of advances in technology.
Developments in artificial intelligence, robotics, and biotechnology, would disrupt the business world in a similar way to previous industrial revolutions, the World Economic Forum said in a report published Monday.
Administrative and white collar office jobs are most at risk from a "fourth industrial revolution," the forum said on the eve of its annual meeting in Davos this week.
The impact of the tech revolution is the central topic of this year's gathering of the world's leaders and major business figures in the Swiss mountain resort.
The forum surveyed senior executives from over 350 of the biggest companies in 15 of the world's major emerging and developed economies. Together, those economies account for 65% of the global workforce.
Related: Smart robots could soon steal your job
It found that as many as 7.1 million jobs in the world's richest countries could be lost through redundancy and automation. Those losses would be partially offset by the creation of 2.1 million new opportunities in sectors such as tech, professional services and media.
Countries will have to invest in transforming their workforce if they want to keep up with the changes and avoid a worse case scenario of "talent shortages, mass unemployment and growing inequality," said Klaus Schwab, the founder and chairman of the World Economic Forum.
Investing in education and adult learning programs is a good place to start.
Around 65% of children starting primary school today will end up working in jobs that don't yet exist, and their future training is crucial, according to the report.
Insisting on more diverse workforces in terms of gender, ethnicity and age, will also be vital for companies that want to succeed in the rapidly changing world.

Welp. It's another blow for humans seeking jobs. T... (show quote)

around 45% of the children starting primary school today won't be needed in the workforce of tomorrow.

TheeGambler Loc: The green pastures of Northeast Texas

bull drink water wrote:

around 45% of the children starting primary school today won't be needed in the workforce of tomorrow.

That is "Chilling."

Supposedly, I have read that the elites want to delete 2/3 of the present population..People just are not going to be needed as the New World Order proponents work furiously to get population down to a, "manageable size."

n3eg Loc: West coast USA

They'll take my steering wheel when they pry it from my cold dead hands.

Which will probably happen when I get hit head-on by a self-driving car some day.

alandg46 Loc: Boerne, Texas

I love to drive. I do not love to drive in Houston at 5pm on a Friday, nor in San Antonio, nor Los Angles, nor Atlanta, nor etc. I, also, think of my step-mother who has failing vision but otherwise is very healthy, but requires a service or cab to take her to get groceries go to the doctor, etc. A self driving car seems like a good solution.

They are coming like it or not. Just as electric cars without subsidies are coming, like it or not. Just a single breakthrough in battery technology and my beloved internal conbustion engines will be relegated to museums and retro days somewhere. By the way, I do make some bucks as a photographer, but I'm a petroleum geologist. I'm 70 and likely won't see all of this, but it's gonna happen.

It has nothing to do with conservatives, liberals, Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, or even the Greens. It's the way of the world.

RonLR

Be alert and ready to take control in an instant..... Isn't that called DRIVING.