Self-driving cars could put 2M people with disabilities to work

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Self-driving cars could put 2M people with disabilities to work
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Motorists of all ages are concerned about self-driving cars. Uber and Lyft drivers are worried about losing their jobs, while others simply doubt that computers can drive as well as humans. (Fun fact: They can. And how.)

But what's often left out of discussions around autonomous vehicles are the benefits they'll offer to people with disabilities. That's a major consideration, given that 57 million Americans are classified as disabled, including 3.8 million veterans.

While self-driving cars won't allow all of those folks to purse employment, they'll be a boon to some. A new whitepaper from Securing America's Future Energy (a think tank devoted to weaning the U.S. off of oil) and the Ruderman Family Foundation shows that autonomous vehicles will allow 2,000,000 people with disabilities to enter the workforce.

This is great news! One of the good things about having less regulations is driverless cars will be able to get on the streets faster and help save lives...Thanks republicans.
 
Call me when a computer does everything you want to do for more than 3 hours at a time.

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.... the Ruderman Family Foundation shows that autonomous vehicles will allow 2,000,000 people with disabilities to enter the workforce.
"Enter the workforce"? What workforce? Uber and Lyft drivers will be looking for the same jobs the disabled are. Increased automation will be taking jobs away from everybody. However the disabled will still have a great opportunity for increased independence and mobility.

Unemployment is low for now. It will be interesting to see just how increased automation will affect all industries besides autonomous vehicles.
 
Automation is definately a two edged sword. It allows for much cheaper manufacture of technically complex machines and products, while at the same time replacing workers with low skill levels. When I started as a millwright in sawmills, we had green chains that employed 20 to 40 men in backbreaking labor. I helped build automated stackers and sorters, now that same work is done by two people. And they don't have to have backs of iron, just understand the machine, and work the computer.

This is a problem as to what we are going to do with the unskilled people.
 
A couple decades ago I worked with one aspect of wire bonding machines. These machines attached a thin wire from the silicon surface to the leads on the chip package. The machines were totally automated but had one operator for every six machines to handle "operator alerts" when a machine became out of adjustment. The goal of companies was to have "lights out manufacturing". The operator alerts would happen so seldom that they could leave the machines running, turn the lights out and go home for the night.

That kind of automation is the dream for all kinds of other manufacturing. We will be living in a society where everything is cheap, but there are few jobs in manufacturing. Repairmen will become less needed because it's cheaper to throw many things away and buy a new one. Many service jobs are being automated by voice recognition. Most remaining service jobs will be plumbers, roofers, painters, builders, etc. that can't be outsourced to another country, nor automated.

What will be the economy of the country be like? We seem to be doing OK now, but the pace of technology is exponential and it's hard to see how to handle the aging population with a small workforce of younger people in the fewer jobs available.
 
In other news,
self driving cars will make 5 million people newly disabled.*shrugs*
 
Self-driving cars could put 2M people with disabilities to work
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Motorists of all ages are concerned about self-driving cars. Uber and Lyft drivers are worried about losing their jobs, while others simply doubt that computers can drive as well as humans. (Fun fact: They can. And how.)

But what's often left out of discussions around autonomous vehicles are the benefits they'll offer to people with disabilities. That's a major consideration, given that 57 million Americans are classified as disabled, including 3.8 million veterans.

While self-driving cars won't allow all of those folks to purse employment, they'll be a boon to some. A new whitepaper from Securing America's Future Energy (a think tank devoted to weaning the U.S. off of oil) and the Ruderman Family Foundation shows that autonomous vehicles will allow 2,000,000 people with disabilities to enter the workforce.

This is great news! One of the good things about having less regulations is driverless cars will be able to get on the streets faster and help save lives...Thanks republicans.
The problem with self-driving cars is that they have found that because of actual human-driven cars and the driving habits of people-driven cars, they get into accident....the fault of course being humans and while the idea has merit, many people like to drive "classic" cars and others will not relinquish control of the wheel.
 

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