<story><title>Andrew Yang&apos;s ideas on automation and mass unemployment are not based in reality</title><url>https://slate.com/business/2019/10/andrew-yang-automation-unemployment-freedom-dividend.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kadoban</author><text>&amp;quot;[...] Long-haul truckers, who tend to make middle-class wages, will be replaced by poorly paid drivers tasked with steering autonomous vehicles through tricky city streets, which onboard navigation systems handle less well than highways. That’s not all jobs disappearing. It’s jobs changing.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Uhm, that&amp;#x27;s halfway decent careers turning into far fewer and shittier jobs. That&amp;#x27;s jobs disappearing. And it ignores that eventually someone will automate even that part away, it&amp;#x27;ll just take a bit longer.&lt;p&gt;The article just seems to just be a series of quibbles that don&amp;#x27;t show Yang to be wrong in any meaningful sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>darkmoney007</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s BS about being capable of navigating Interstate highways autonomously.&lt;p&gt;Whoever does the research needs go actually go along an Over The Road truck driver and actually see what challenges technology face.&lt;p&gt;Different highways with crumpling road markers.
Severe weather.
Unpredictable human drivers.
Fueling.
Construction sites and their differences between displaying markers.&lt;p&gt;I do not see autonomous technology taking over long haul truckers anytime soon, especially if the state and federal government doesn&amp;#x27;t maintain the highways and keeps cutting budget.&lt;p&gt;The few scenarios where the present technology can handle is a local route that has greatly maintained roads and stable weather. Even in this case, it&amp;#x27;s foolish to think human drivers will not be as careless as before. In fact, I predict they will think its so safe that they will cut the truck off ever closer, thus creating more disasters.&lt;p&gt;Source: I&amp;#x27;m a trucker and know the challenges computer vision and its sensors could possibly face.</text></comment>
<story><title>Andrew Yang&apos;s ideas on automation and mass unemployment are not based in reality</title><url>https://slate.com/business/2019/10/andrew-yang-automation-unemployment-freedom-dividend.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kadoban</author><text>&amp;quot;[...] Long-haul truckers, who tend to make middle-class wages, will be replaced by poorly paid drivers tasked with steering autonomous vehicles through tricky city streets, which onboard navigation systems handle less well than highways. That’s not all jobs disappearing. It’s jobs changing.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Uhm, that&amp;#x27;s halfway decent careers turning into far fewer and shittier jobs. That&amp;#x27;s jobs disappearing. And it ignores that eventually someone will automate even that part away, it&amp;#x27;ll just take a bit longer.&lt;p&gt;The article just seems to just be a series of quibbles that don&amp;#x27;t show Yang to be wrong in any meaningful sense.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Barrin92</author><text>Yes, I disagree with some of Yang&amp;#x27;s views (and his proposed solution) and the general idea that we&amp;#x27;re living in the fastest age of technological process (I&amp;#x27;m generally quite pessimistic if one tallies up the resources we keep using, the education we have and how little change there is), but many of the criticisms of Yang seem to be worse than the caution he brings to the table.&lt;p&gt;Even if Yang is only slightly right, and I do agree on some sectors like Amazon replacing brick and mortar stores and the erosion of mid-skilled work and good jobs, that can already be back-breaking for many developed economies, and in particular the UK and the US with their strong focus on deindustrialisation have &lt;i&gt;already felt the effects&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;One only needs to leave London for a few hours and travel the country and go to the poor places that were former hubs of industrial production. Many of the places are in astonishingly bad shape.</text></comment>