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Self-Driving Cars Still Are Not Ready for Prime Time

Tech nerds may remember back to 2012 when the billionaire founder of Google predicted that self-driving cars would be a thing very soon: (Cnet: Google’s Sergey Brin: You’ll ride in robot cars within 5 years).

But it hasn’t happened, not even close. Maybe the brainiacs of Silicon Valley couldn’t anticipate the vagaries of normal street […]

PBS Frontline Surveys a Future with Artificial Intelligence

Earlier this week, PBS broadcast a two-hour Frontline episode, In the Age of AI. It was one of the more comprehensive media presentations on the automated future we face, and the program was broken into five sections. One of those was titled “The Surveillance State” and it described the steps being taken by Red China […]

Expert Expresses Concerns with Safety of Self-Driving Vehicles

The Gold Rush toward domination of the future self-driving vehicle market continues with enthusiasm. The reticence that occurred after a deadly Arizona accident in 2018 appears to have faded, at least according to a recent CBS story. In fact, the article begins by saying, “The race to create the self-driving car continues at a feverish […]

Florida Faces Self-Driving Trucks in the Near Future

Self-driving trucks have been in basic test mode for several years now — meaning a human is present behind the wheel — but now Florida moving toward full auto.

The founder of Starsky Robotics, Stefan Seltz-Axmacher, appeared on Fox Business recently and remarked, “We’ve been testing on Florida roads with people in the cab for […]

Arizonans Violently Resist Self-Driving Cars

This is an interesting report, showing that Americans are not all ready to be marched by corporate elites into the automated, jobless future.

Below, Waymo self-driving cars are being tested — and abused by citizens — in Chandler, Arizona.

In an earlier time, workers known as Luddites destroyed factory machinery to protest technology seen […]

Apple Expands Its Self-Driving Fleet

In the future, it’s possible we will see cars as computers with wheels and may shop accordingly for a self-driving vehicle that matches up with our laptop — particularly now that Apple is becoming a bigger player in that segment of the automated future. The company appears to be upping its interest in the self-driving […]

California: Self-Driving Taxis Are Planned

While there are skeptics about the self-driving project who think it will require more time and testing to materialize, top corporations are taking concrete steps to move forward. Billion-dollar companies see autonomous vehicles as the future of transportation and they don’t want to be left behind.

Two major automakers have recently announced their intention to […]

Axios: America Is Unprepared for the Automation Jobs Apocalypse

CBS News has done some good reporting about automation and how it will radically change the modern workplace, and its latest story makes the point that America remains clueless about the approaching jobs disaster.

In 2016, CBS’ Sixty Minutes illustrated the new automated manufacturing to viewers.

The following clip from CBS News discussed an […]

MIT’s Self-Driving Car Can Navigate Country Roads

Machines keep getting smarter and more capable of performing jobs formerly done by humans. One recent upgrade to self-driving tech comes from MIT where they have figured out how the cars can maneuver country lanes. Up to this point, companies like Google have tested their vehicles in big cities where they have mapped the exact […]

Waymo Self-Driving Cars Apply for Driver-Free Test Permit in California

The self-driving juggernaut keeps advancing, taking the necessary technical and regulatory steps to turn the automation dream of Google that was discounted even by techies into a world-changing industry.

The Google spin-off company Waymo has applied to the state of California for a permit to allow driver-free cars on the roadways for testing. Of course, […]

Self-Driving Waymo Company Purchases Upscale Models

If you thought the recent death caused by a self-driving car in Arizona would stop the industry’s rush toward moving the technology into full public use, you would be wrong. From big corporations to smaller start-ups, major investments have been made to make automated cars a part of future travel, so the competition for market […]

Tucker Carlson Warns about the Effects of Globalization and Automation on American Men

Tucker Carlson has been doing a series about men in his show and how economic forces in America have pushed them down for decades with destructive social effects. He does a good job of describing the causes, specifically noting immigration, automation and the competition of cheap foreign manufacturing. The best thing about his essay is […]

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