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Friday, 2 March 2018
quote [ Majority of drivers make less than minimum wage and many end up losing money, according to study published by MIT ]
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steele said @ 9:53pm GMT on 2nd March
Out of curiosity what state do you work in? Because California just made it legal for companies to start testing fully driverless cars on public roads as of April 2nd. Plus GM has announced they'll be releasing a fully driverless car sans steering wheel next year and it sounds like they're already experimenting with their own ridesharing plans. As far as goods transport goes Embrak just did Los Angeles, California to Jacksonville, FL with their Driverless Semi system that I believe is almost fully automated from onramp to offramp.
The last five years or so has seen some serious advancement in neural networks leading to a massive leap in the hurdles of other tech sectors requiring human emulation. And a lot of people underestimate what it means to have all those cell phones reporting their geolocation 24/7. That's a lot of traffic data.
steele said @ 9:54pm GMT on 2nd March
Out of curiosity what state do you work in? Because California just made it legal for companies to start testing fully driverless cars on public roads as of this upcoming April. Plus, GM has announced they'll be releasing a fully driverless car sans steering wheel next year and it sounds like they're already experimenting with their own ridesharing plans. As far as goods transport goes Embrak just did Los Angeles, California to Jacksonville, FL with their Driverless Semi system that I believe is almost fully automated from onramp to offramp.
The last five years or so has seen some serious advancement in neural networks leading to a massive leap in the hurdles of other tech sectors requiring human emulation. And a lot of people underestimate what it means to have all those cell phones reporting their geolocation 24/7. That's a lot of traffic data.
steele said @ 9:57pm GMT on 2nd March
Out of curiosity what state do you work in? Because California just made it legal for companies to start testing fully driverless cars on public roads as of this upcoming April. Plus, GM has announced they'll be releasing a fully driverless car sans steering wheel next year and it sounds like they're already experimenting with their own ridesharing plans. As far as goods transport goes Embark just did Los Angeles, California to Jacksonville, FL with their Driverless Semi system that I believe is almost fully automated from onramp to offramp.
The last five years or so has seen some serious advancement in neural networks leading to a massive leap in the hurdles of other tech sectors requiring human emulation. And a lot of people underestimate what it means to have all those cell phones reporting their geolocation 24/7. That's a lot of traffic data.
steele said @ 10:07pm GMT on 2nd March
Out of curiosity what state do you work in? Because California just made it legal for companies to start testing fully driverless cars on public roads as of this upcoming April. Plus, GM has announced they'll be releasing a fully driverless car sans steering wheel next year and it sounds like they're already experimenting with their own ridesharing plans. As far as goods transport goes Embark just did Los Angeles, California to Jacksonville, FL with their Driverless Semi system that I believe is almost fully automated from onramp to offramp.
The last five years or so has seen some serious advancement in neural networks leading to a massive leap in the hurdles of other tech sectors requiring human emulation. And a lot of people underestimate what it means to have all those cell phones reporting their geolocation 24/7. That's a lot of traffic data.
This is unrelated to your comment but since I'm sharing the link to the embark article I just want to address one thing:
Embark says that its trucks aren't aimed at replacing human drivers but are instead a means of dealing with growing driver shortages. In a statement he made last year, Rodrigues said, "By allowing automation to work together with local drivers to handle less desirable long haul routes, we will be able to increase productivity to address the current 50,000 driver shortage while also creating new local driving jobs that attract younger drivers for the industry."
This is slimeball speak for "We're going to use technology to lower the barrier of entry for drivers by reducing the qualifications needed to be a driver. This will then temporarily flood the market with labor so that we can lower the wages of present drivers even further until such a time when technology advances enough to replace all drivers."
This is also the Uber model, as this is the Disruption model. Flood the sector's labor market, lower wages, replace workers with tech. Rinse and repeat until tech has replaced all labor. The disruptors then have an oligopoly. There's supposed to be a step in there about retraining but it's bullshit and rarely followed through on.
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steele said @ 9:53pm GMT on 2nd March [Score:1 Underrated]
Out of curiosity what state do you work in? Because California just made it legal for companies to start testing fully driverless cars on public roads as of this upcoming April. Plus, GM has announced they'll be releasing a fully driverless car sans steering wheel next year and it sounds like they're already experimenting with their own ridesharing plans. As far as goods transport goes Embark just did Los Angeles, California to Jacksonville, FL with their Driverless Semi system that I believe is almost fully automated from onramp to offramp.
The last five years or so has seen some serious advancement in neural networks leading to a massive leap in the hurdles of other tech sectors requiring human emulation. And a lot of people underestimate what it means to have all those cell phones reporting their geolocation 24/7. That's a lot of traffic data.
This is unrelated to your comment but since I'm sharing the link to the embark article I just want to address one thing:
Embark says that its trucks aren't aimed at replacing human drivers but are instead a means of dealing with growing driver shortages. In a statement he made last year, Rodrigues said, "By allowing automation to work together with local drivers to handle less desirable long haul routes, we will be able to increase productivity to address the current 50,000 driver shortage while also creating new local driving jobs that attract younger drivers for the industry."
This is slimeball speak for "We're going to use technology to lower the barrier of entry for drivers by reducing the qualifications needed to be a driver. This will then temporarily flood the market with labor so that we can lower the wages of present drivers even further until such a time when technology advances enough to replace all drivers."
This is also the Uber model, as this is the Disruption model. Flood the sector's labor market, lower wages, replace workers with tech. Rinse and repeat until tech has replaced all labor. The disruptors then have an oligopoly. There's supposed to be a step in there about retraining but it's bullshit and rarely followed through on.
Passengers Who Call Uber Instead Of An Ambulance Put Drivers At Risk
In summation, Fuck Uber.