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RE: Beer Delivery: Anheuser-Busch and Uber Claim First Self-Driving Commercial Truck Shipment

in #technology8 years ago (edited)

I personally have never met anyone in my life that was planning on making it their career goal to become a truck driver, have you? when was the last time a kid said they wanted to drive a truck? .. If you look into this profession you will see that it's becoming more difficult for them to recruit drivers, and perhaps this autonomous driving will help to meet that need If they are having difficulty finding people who want to do that job? I don't see anything wrong with a company or individuals choosing to voluntarily embrace this technology.

It is technology which has liberated us from much of the menial and hard work of the past,to the point now where people can be free now to spend their time trying to be full-time musicians, mathematicians, full-time youtubers, athletes, or fashion designers etc, rather than spending all of our day on hard labor simply trying to grow enough food for the family. Our standard of living has greatly increased because of the improvements in technology.

Maybe we should allow the robots to do the jobs that they are better at, rather than trying to compete with them, and instead we can be free to innovate and move on toward something better ? There will always be jobs that we will have an advantage over when it comes to AI, those which involve relationships, creativity, and human contact etc. so perhaps we should put attention at fostering what we are better at rather than fearing the technology and being too afraid to use it to try and make our lives better?