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Tony Ray
April 25, 2019 at 12:42 am
I just can’t see past all the people who will lose their jobs and livelihood. Love how he starts out with a lie about how they can’t find enough qualified people to operate a backhoe. Bulshit
Spooky
April 25, 2019 at 7:37 pm
Unfortunately they don’t care and obviously seem to have different concerns
General Lee N Knass /knot retired/
April 26, 2019 at 6:05 pm
Small businesses need help cost-cutting, whenever possible.
But, “Big-Biz,” hell-bent on profit, could be taxed for eliminating jobs, to a degree.
The God Emperor of Mankind
April 27, 2019 at 10:20 am
M8, you need qualification to operate heavy machinery like that. If you don’t have it how do you expect to be hired for it?
Stasis
April 25, 2019 at 3:57 am
Yip, that’s definitely getting hacked.
Daniel Nicklas V
May 4, 2019 at 11:19 pm
Hacking has never been and is not easy, and as the autonomy tech getting more and more mature it’s going to get progressively harder to mess it up, especially against larger companies with a lot of expertise like Tesla for example. Just look at how often Google is getting hacked, the military nowadays; those days are pretty much over. It has to be a very large effort now from a coordinated team backed up by a government in order for it to work; and where’s the incentive for such a large scale attack?
Lytanshade
April 25, 2019 at 3:57 am
Yip, that’s definitely getting hacked.
droneXfactor
April 26, 2019 at 10:01 am
Wow…… impressive
General Lee N Knass /knot retired/
April 26, 2019 at 5:55 pm
I imagined you commenting in a “non-excited monotone voice,” for some reason?
General Lee N Knass /knot retired/
April 26, 2019 at 5:44 pm
*When did well paying jobs like that, become hard to fill?*
If you’ve an IQ slightly higher than average, you can learn to use those, fairly easy.
*I may’ve answered my own question?*
1234coolman
April 27, 2019 at 12:59 am
Hell yea!!! Make them work at night
Hail Xenu
April 27, 2019 at 3:34 pm
This is going to put a lot of fat people out of work
Clint Brantley
May 22, 2019 at 1:13 am
No it’s not ..the labor shortage is too big and this is highly needed
xL33CHx
April 28, 2019 at 6:00 am
“Hard to fill positions” hahaha They haven’t become hard to find workers at all! This is just what they say to make it sound like they aren’t developing them for anything other than making the CEO of mining companies huge money by NOT hiring humans. Robots are already driving all the trucks in the mines and cutting costs by not hiring humans there. human workforce being slashed by automation in australian mining industry by huge numbers in last 8 years due to automation. automation will have replaced 50% of the lower skilled workforce by 2029. Lesson: Learn robotics and programming.
Daniel Nicklas V
May 4, 2019 at 11:09 pm
Only a fraction of those that lose their jobs due to autonomy can have jobs in robotics and programming, and it’s not like it’s an easy field to begin with. This is why UBI and very possibly a rework of our entire money system and the idea of what is are going to be crucial to the stability in the west in the upcoming years.
boson96
April 30, 2019 at 4:28 pm
If there were enough workers in the labour pool, there won’t be the economic push necessary to build these robots. It’s the same with truck drivers and the development of automated trucks.
People underestimate how hard it is to do these jobs and the employees are hard to come by.
Daniel Vela
May 3, 2019 at 5:40 pm
You show this to an operator who is making 3k a week, and he’ll flip he’s brains out.