The robots are going to steal my job!

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Hammer166, Aug 14, 2024.

  1. hope not dumb twucker

    hope not dumb twucker Road Train Member

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    John Connor approves. He warned us.
     
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    Hammer166 Crusty Information Officer

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    A fact that's absolutely ignored by those in favor of handouts. As if the steady deterioration of societal norms in the projects wasn't proof enough that it was a problem.
     
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    Really in all honesty who wants a life where they just wake up in their 10x10 cubical and wear VR goggles all day?
     
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    Go watch Surrogates, it looks like some love it.
     
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    Hammer166 Crusty Information Officer

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    I spent 6 weeks unable to do anything after surgery. I was half nuts before it was over.
     
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    No kidding. If I sleep in until 10 am on a day off I feel like I wasted the day.
     
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    So you got better ?
     
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    Since you're a trucker, you were already 3/4s nuts. Going half nuts from there means you're 7/8's nuts. The CARB board is on the way to make you into milk.

    Look, I don't make the rules but ever since the Feds made Wisconsin make margarine legal the world's been going to heck in habiliment.
     
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    Hammer166 Crusty Information Officer

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    Can confirm... Recovered to full on crazy!

    Funny, I knew Wisconsin made you color your own margarine, but I didn't know it was much more widespread issue!

    How the Government Came to Decide the Color of Your Food | Smithsonian
     
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    For true inner vehicle communications we need the highways wired too so the vehicles locations relative to others can be continuously controlled.
    Rebuilding the infrastructure will take a long time, especially with the lowest bidder system used by all the involved buruacies with fingers in the pie making reliability problematic years longer than necessary.

    Look at Boeing's space craft....

    As sections are really harmonized, perhaps some of us here will see 100% robotic OTR with drivers doing local/short regional stuff.

    By the time EVERY delivery destination in the country is 'wired' to truly eliminate all forms of truck driver, your great, great, grand kid's might see it.

    It will happen just after we all get Jetson's flying cars...