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01-05-2017, 05:34 AM | #48 | |
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Simply not true. One need only visit the local Walmart and the human-free checkout section to see that. The car industry has been hit for years, and will continue to be.
Reality check: Manufacturers returning to U.S. may mean jobs for robots, not people. Do you have data/links to support that. It's certainly counter-intuitive. Last edited by Pajamaman; 01-05-2017 at 05:55 AM. |
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Who manufactures/sells/installs/maintains Walmart's self-checkout machines? Who trains people to manufacture/sell/install/maintain the self-checkout machines that Walmart bought? Who helps the customer having trouble with the self-checkout machine at Walmart? Who trains the Walmart employee how to help customers having trouble with the self-checkout machine at Walmart? Who monitors the self-checkout machines at Walmart to make sure someone isn't smuggling merchandise through without payng for it? Who installs/maintains the cameras/monitoring equpment that the employee Walmart employee hired to monitor theft (a direct result of installing self-checkout machines) uses? Who trained them how to use the monitoring equipment?
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01-05-2017, 06:50 AM | #51 | |
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With regard to manufacturing and creating those machines, yes, there are new jobs, but they are on a much higher level than the jobs that disappear. OK, if you use drones to deliver packages, you eliminate the mailman, but get jobs in the fields of creating drones. Said mailman can probably never work there, because if he could, he would probably have done so already. |
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If it's onboard, it will have sensors. It'll know of mechanical problems sooner than a human would, before they lead to failure. If it is weather or traffic, it will be plugged in to existing weather and traffic monitoring systems for continuous updates. If it is local, the onboard sensors will detect. These things aren't science fiction or hypotheticals, they are real. Actual solid objects that are already out and about. It's not a what-if but a what is. They are designed and they work. They are being built and deployed. Raising hypothetical roadblocks won't change the fact that this is happening. Now. |
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If something happens within the car, it can be detected by sensors. It's the same as with building and programming machines and robots. If you put enough sensors into a device, you can detect everything, down to the functioning of single valves.
Even things like a crash can be detected; if you suddenly see an object that doesn't move, while you get closer and closer, the car needs to break. A computer can determine this in a fraction of a second. "I see stuff...." "I'm closing in..." (maybe the object is just going slower than I am) Repeat a few times. If still closing in after 3 or 5 cycles, break. Those 3-5 cycles take fractions of seconds. |
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Robotics and automation aren't just for transport.
There is an entire "secret" industry of agricultural tech including robot vehicles and tools. Like these and more: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/te...n-and-sensors/ And this breed of automation isn't displacing anybody. Instead it is making up for labor shortfalls and amplifying the output of the existing labor force. Lots of amazing things are happening out there, if we'll only pay attention. |
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Things change. Always have. Every innovation since the dawn of man has cost some people their job/position--while creating different (and usually more) positions/industries to be filled by the next generatin of job-seekers. Why suddenly start crying about it? |
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Where are you going to put waiters to work, after the waiter robot is introduced? As dishwashers? Nah. Already a machine for that. Bus/taxi drivers? Nah. Cars are automated already. Mailman? Mwoah. Amazon automated that using drones. Mechanical Engineer / Software Engineer to create all of these devices himself? Forget it. He doesn't have the education, for whatever reason. No money to study, or not enough intelligence to study at the required level. |
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