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Originally posted by pintohoo ↑

hi market,

we have google cars already, we have Volvo with self drive cars already - and we have robotic trucks already - and we have those technologies racing ahead at breakneck speed.

Combine that with a high labour cost in transport.

Gaze into the crystal ball. Can you see transport companies using humans in transport - if the vehicle can drive itself - 24 hours a day, safer than a human, compliant with the practices desired for efficiency?

How much of a crystal ball does one need?

I invented the first robotic (land) prospecting vehicle. I then knew that if I could do it with a vehicle in rough terrain - it would be doable in pits for open cut with large vehicles on set routes with limited or no obstacles.

I knew that was the next step. I also knew that was a major project that would consume my life - probably for the rest of my life - so I didn't go ahead with it.

Rio did.

From that first thinking - they exist - and they work and that took give or take about 10 years (give or take).

Right now we have technologies out there working today on public roads - mainly highways - but, I do see cars experimenting in heavy New York traffic now.

How long will it be before we have autonomous heavy transport working on public roads (initially it will be long hauls and not through cities - but, that will come rapidly I think) --

we I am sure will be talking years - not decades - at least not a lot of decades.

Can we agree it is a when, not an if?

That's all we have to know - then we can start asking exactly what jack asked - what the hell are all those people who are presently employed in those industries going to do then?

All my point is is that we have to start thinking about that now - not in 10 years, not even in 5 years -------- NOW.

Someone else pointed out that if you hold people in your country for 10 years to pay for their education and then let them go - and they go, then you are losing them at the most productive time -------------- agree, however, I can't think of a better way. You can't hold them forever.

have a great day all

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