This is an article about autonomous truck driving; do you know how many truck and taxi drivers there are, and what a ripple that will cause in the economy on its own? There are 250,000 taxi drivers and 3.5 million truck drivers. That is a lot of people out of work in a short span of time. A taxi driver can't just decide to compete with those millions of other people and open a lawn care company when the jobs dry out. Now add to that all the other jobs to be replaced by AI. It's dark times ahead. I can't see autonomous truck driving being practical in the short term but when it does become practical it's going to suck.
They'll find someone else in the world to buy it, just as they have found someone else in the world to make it. I hear india and China are new emerging markets. Surely you don't think it is just manufacturing jobs going away.
Ah, you are one of those that have the dream that capitalism will always have room for everyone. Don't wake up, because the fact of the matter is if capitalism doesn't need anything, then people starve.
Just wait for Uber drivers' cars to start reaching the 5-10 year old point and have them try to stretch them out as long as possible because they have 180,000 miles and they can't pay people to take them.
They had better be impossible from the standpoint of the automaton, otherwise it opens all kinds of legal issues. If I own an automatic car, I'd better be assured it won't cause millions of dollars worth of damage or kill someone. If I am to accept financial responsibility for any of that then I'll just keep driving myself, thanks. I'll insure the vehicle *as property* so if someone throws a brick through the window I don't pay to get it fixed, but I won't accept nor pay to protect myself from what it might decide do because I have no control over that. As far as I am concerned, a car I have no control over that is so statistically unpredictable that the insurance agencies want to charge me for it is not safe enough for me to put my family in.
I look over my wife's shoulder sometimes when she uses Facebook and it just seems to be an endless stream of chain 'hey look at this funny/thought provoking/sad thing' emails. The kind I never really wanted to get, but people sent me. Not sure why anyone would want to read that.
I think that comes by extension by a general trend I've noticed of people not really giving a crap what anyone else wants. Even if moving an application in a direction that makes it more desirable and thus profitable. It's almost like people are becoming dead to the wants and needs of others while elevating their own wants and needs. Perhaps it's because of a generation of schooling that were never allowed to fail kids, or too much helicopter parenting. It's like developers think they are precious little snowflakes and the world will just follow along with them because they deserve it.
These figures are for an average passenger car, not one that is being driven 8 hours a day. Ask a taxi driver if their cars 'depreciate' $3,654 a year and they're likely to laugh in your face!
Perhaps $0.60/mile for maintenance, but you also have to take into account that an Uber driver will be driving that car into the ground a few years before they would if it were a personal car and they're not going to get anything for it at the end. I highly doubt that figure takes into account the actual value of replacing the vehicle.
Also I could find no details on how flexible the hours were if you wanted to make that $36 an hour. I've heard of Uber drivers going out in low times and making $2 an hour. Apparently Uber has a policy against drivers talking about their actual earnings after costs.
According to what I googled, they make around $36 an hour.. which isn't very much considering it has to cover the cost of the vehicle, maintenance, insurance, et al. If a taxi driver makes $12 an hour, at least that is in the clear.
I didn't say you were a monster, I simply made the suggestion that perhaps human needs do not fit nicely into a digital world and we should tread very lightly before we lose every ounce of our humanity to computers. The monster thing you came up with on your own, good luck living with that.
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This is an article about autonomous truck driving; do you know how many truck and taxi drivers there are, and what a ripple that will cause in the economy on its own? There are 250,000 taxi drivers and 3.5 million truck drivers. That is a lot of people out of work in a short span of time. A taxi driver can't just decide to compete with those millions of other people and open a lawn care company when the jobs dry out. Now add to that all the other jobs to be replaced by AI. It's dark times ahead. I can't see autonomous truck driving being practical in the short term but when it does become practical it's going to suck.
They'll find someone else in the world to buy it, just as they have found someone else in the world to make it. I hear india and China are new emerging markets. Surely you don't think it is just manufacturing jobs going away.
Ah, you are one of those that have the dream that capitalism will always have room for everyone. Don't wake up, because the fact of the matter is if capitalism doesn't need anything, then people starve.
We're the inexpensive choice... but you might get raped.
You could probably piss on the riders and still drive for Uber.
Just wait for Uber drivers' cars to start reaching the 5-10 year old point and have them try to stretch them out as long as possible because they have 180,000 miles and they can't pay people to take them.
Are you really asking that? Do you feel it is against the rights of a known pedophile to work at a daycare?
Just learn to do work that is of value to society.
And if machines already do 90% of the work that is of value to society, what then?
"Even if they don't make accidents impossible"
They had better be impossible from the standpoint of the automaton, otherwise it opens all kinds of legal issues. If I own an automatic car, I'd better be assured it won't cause millions of dollars worth of damage or kill someone. If I am to accept financial responsibility for any of that then I'll just keep driving myself, thanks. I'll insure the vehicle *as property* so if someone throws a brick through the window I don't pay to get it fixed, but I won't accept nor pay to protect myself from what it might decide do because I have no control over that. As far as I am concerned, a car I have no control over that is so statistically unpredictable that the insurance agencies want to charge me for it is not safe enough for me to put my family in.
I look over my wife's shoulder sometimes when she uses Facebook and it just seems to be an endless stream of chain 'hey look at this funny/thought provoking/sad thing' emails. The kind I never really wanted to get, but people sent me. Not sure why anyone would want to read that.
Because being an American means you are to nurture every corporation and that you want to see them become happy and healthy.
The ultimate in function, the command line, is the minimum in style.
Unless you have ANSI color codes on! Then you're sedawkgrepping like the cool kids.
I think that comes by extension by a general trend I've noticed of people not really giving a crap what anyone else wants. Even if moving an application in a direction that makes it more desirable and thus profitable. It's almost like people are becoming dead to the wants and needs of others while elevating their own wants and needs. Perhaps it's because of a generation of schooling that were never allowed to fail kids, or too much helicopter parenting. It's like developers think they are precious little snowflakes and the world will just follow along with them because they deserve it.
Philosopher David Hume was writing about the spread of ignorance in the 1700's.. Not sure how this is news.
These figures are for an average passenger car, not one that is being driven 8 hours a day. Ask a taxi driver if their cars 'depreciate' $3,654 a year and they're likely to laugh in your face!
Perhaps $0.60/mile for maintenance, but you also have to take into account that an Uber driver will be driving that car into the ground a few years before they would if it were a personal car and they're not going to get anything for it at the end. I highly doubt that figure takes into account the actual value of replacing the vehicle.
Also I could find no details on how flexible the hours were if you wanted to make that $36 an hour. I've heard of Uber drivers going out in low times and making $2 an hour. Apparently Uber has a policy against drivers talking about their actual earnings after costs.
According to what I googled, they make around $36 an hour.. which isn't very much considering it has to cover the cost of the vehicle, maintenance, insurance, et al. If a taxi driver makes $12 an hour, at least that is in the clear.
I hope you are not referring to my previous post in which I pointed out that you called yourself a monster.
Yes because when parents have a child that is dying, the cellphone is EXACTLY what they think about.
I didn't say you were a monster, I simply made the suggestion that perhaps human needs do not fit nicely into a digital world and we should tread very lightly before we lose every ounce of our humanity to computers. The monster thing you came up with on your own, good luck living with that.
Wow, so little room you allow for being human.
So every parent should have the keys to every kid's phone in case they pass away? How is that solution incorporating privacy at all?
Why do people buy 16Gb devices and then assume it will be good for anything beyond that 16Gb?
"What should I be looking for?"
How about a competent IT staff that are happy with what they do and don't feel like they're working for bottom dollar.