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 […]
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November 6th, 2019 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, autonomous, driving jobs, Frontline, job loss, safety, self-driving, self-driving truck, truck driver, unemployment |  Email This Post |  Print This Post 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 […] June 18th, 2019 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: American drivers, American workers, automation, driving jobs, Florida, immigrant workers, immigration, safety, self-driving trucks, Starsky Robotics, Stefan Seltz-Axmacher | Email This Post | Print This Post Here’s the kind of automation fail nobody wants to see. A jetliner crashed and killed all 189 people on board last month as the pilots struggled unsuccessfully to wrest control from the plane’s own computer system. Below, debris recovery in the Java Sea. It’s not the first time the mismatch between airliner computers […] November 29th, 2018 | Category: technology | Tags: air travel safety, automation, crash, jetliner, passenger jet, robot, safety, self-driving car, self-flying plane | Email This Post | Print This Post 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, […] April 15th, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, California, driving jobs, Google company, immigration, robot, safety, self-driving cars, technology, Waymo | Email This Post | Print This Post General Motors announced that it would begin testing its self-driving cars in New York City next year which shows a high degree of confidence, given the level of density and human randomness. Usually at this point I would point out the job loss that will result with all those automated autos which would naturally […] October 17th, 2017 | Category: self-driving cars | Tags: automation, cabs, driver, English, English language, foreign cab driver, immigration, New York City, safety, self-driving cabs, self-driving cars, taxi | Email This Post | Print This Post |
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