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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 […] December 31st, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: arizona, automation, driving jobs, job loss, robot, self-driving cars, smart machines, technological unemployment, Waymo |  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 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 […] March 29th, 2018 | Category: self-driving cars | Tags: automation, driving jobs, Google car, immigration, job displacement, public safety, robot, self-driving, Sergey Brin, technological unemployment, Waymo | Email This Post | Print This Post The training wheels are off in America’s biggest car state — on April 2 there will be no safety human in the driver’s seat of autonomous automobiles. It shows how the self-driving competition for market share is heating up. Waymo (the Google car) got approval from Arizona to operate as a ride-hailing business there a […] February 27th, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, California, drive remotely, job displacement, robot, self-driving cars, Senator Tom Cotton, taxi drivers, Waymo | Email This Post | Print This Post The self-driving revolution took another step forward recently when the state of Arizona gave the Waymo company a permit to charge customers for its transportation service. The self-driving cars have been tested on Phoenix streets for several months with people riding for free, and the new authorization allows the company to charge customers which puts […] February 20th, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, cabbie, driving jobs, Google car, immigration, job displacement, ride-sharing, robot, self-driving car, taxi driver, Uber, Waymo | Email This Post | Print This Post |
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