How many of you guys are unemployed?

[Rufus]

Why? I'm not a luddite.

[shosta]

Nope. Humans are cheaper. Self-driving trucks are a solution looking for a problm.

Source? Lol

[jorma]

Why? I'm not a luddite.

mainly because you called automated driving a pipe dream i guess

[Rufus]

Nope. Humans are cheaper. Self-driving trucks are a solution looking for a problm.

Source? Lol

My pessimistic butt. Self-driving cars are a meme, because they can't predict the behaviour of human drivers on the road. That's a hill I don't see them crest any time soon.

Ride-assissts are cool (lane keeping, maintaining distance, emergency breaking, etc.) and will become standard long before self-driving vehicles take off, should they ever.

And no, I'm not betting you.

Why? I'm not a luddite.

mainly because you called automated driving a pipe dream i guess

Poo-pooing one tech doesn't mean I poo-poo all tech, come on now.

[jorma]

i'm pretty sure they can learn to predict human behaviour a lot better than human behaviour

but yeah, they'll have to be a LOT better than other humans before they'll be allowed on the public roads, but i also don't think it's that far off.

machines learn pretty fast these days

[CatsCatsCats]

Also, i think this is very likely to be one of the first jobs to disappear due to automation.

Nope. Humans are cheaper. Self-driving trucks are a solution looking for a problm.

Now rail - that is rife for automation.

You still need a trucker to take that freight off the rail and deliver it, at least in Murcah

[shosta]

My pessimistic butt. Self-driving cars are a meme, because they can't predict the behaviour of human drivers on the road. That's a hill I don't see them crest any time soon.

And if there are no human drivers?

[CatsCatsCats]

You’re taking regular cars away from Americans right after guns, shost.

[Rufus]

Designated lanes or robot holocaust? My non-monetary bet is on robot trains.

[CatsCatsCats]

I’ve actually seen a pretty good variety of America’s warehousing infrastructures and I will tell you automation is certainly possible in a theoretical sense, but practically? Even Bezos has commercials on the radio and is bowing to some wage pressures is all I’m saying. You need people to transport physical goods and will in America for quite some time yet.

[shosta]

You’re taking regular cars away from Americans right after guns, shost.

state highway, state laws. You can keep your car, you just can't drive it at 80mph next to innocent people

[BisMarckie]

I suggest Bore Trucker Daddies : Where your goods have a gay old time as the company‘s name and slogan.

[CatsCatsCats]

And to deliver goods to existing warehouses you need to come off those highways and navigate variable shitty roads that were designed by a variety of shitty municipalities. Could see ai highway assist being the thing, maybe

[BisMarckie]

state highway, state laws. You can keep your car, you just can't drive it at 80mph next to innocent people

You‘re right, I wouldn‘t want to drive that slowly either.

[Clockwork5]

I’ve been unemployed for 4 months. I’m getting some decent UI payments but those will cease next week. Who knows what the fuck I’m going to do. I made the mistake of sticking with the restaurant industry and have actually made a good living as GM for the past 10 years but fuck that. I refuse to work in a restaurant right now. Maybe I’ll just drive for GrubGo until there is a vaccine or whatever and destroy this car I have been babying since 2011.

My options are limited at this point. All of my skills revolve around getting fancy food and wine into the faces of rich people. Even the secondary and tertiary industries that support restaurants are letting people go. 

[chronovore]

Employed. Game dev seems to be reasonably suited to remote-work.

wait, you're a game dev?

Yup, been at it since 1994. I attended the very first E3, even.

what do you do?

I started as an artist, but have been involved with just about every discipline. I'm a senior producer/development manager now.

[Tripon]

Unemployed for a month and this is the month I decide to get my front tooth fixed with a root canal and Crown. 

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I still have my dental insurance since I'm on a 11 month contract, and it's set up where July I don't get a paycheck. $240 for the root canal, $700 for the crown.

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[CatsCatsCats]

Heh, yeah. First month on unemployment I had to pay to have to my stepsons toenail beds lasered out of pocket to the tune of $500+

[team filler]

toenail beds lasered

[CatsCatsCats]

Yeah,  his nail beds are super deep and he gets bad in grown toe nails but they cut them back and then laser blast it so it won’t grow back