" Driver "
Is one of the jobs Automation has its sights on next.
Millions will be left unemployed when one " Driver " supervises a small tail gating convoy of several trucks.
His job won't be a driver he will be the trouble shooter that changes the flat tyre or makes corrections for problems.
He will also unload the truck....
The taxi will follow.....
Then your own car will drive itself.
And maybe you won't even own one because its cheaper to lease a car that come to you when you need it and moves on to the next job when you dropped off at work.
I don't thnk people get this technological displacement and globalization thing at all...
And all the tax cuts to buisness in the world will do nothing but concentrate the welath at the top...
Here in Canada they say big buisness is sitting on a Trillion dollars with no idea what to do with it.
Can't give it to the share holders they will be taxed...
Dump it in th stcok market thats an idea because it always makes your money grow.
But even the trades are done by machinese and the people just run the scams...
But no one gets it....
I built probably one of the first consoles for an automated LHD in the world.
About 20 years ago it was......
( LHD is a boig fron tend loader used in mines ).
Teh project ended in failure because the bnest technology of the day was just not up to thje task and the system was very difficult to keep running....
We designed it in house with the worlds first robotic truck too ( the Little stobie Electric truck ).
But you never hear of them sadly they are all gone.
All but one of the LHDs, its a modified 1990s Copco ST700 resting quietly in a garrage on 5800 level at Creighton mine.
It shoud be ina museum though...
And here is the technology today just like the one I built.
Perhaps the coolest feature of the Scooptram ST14 is that it is almost fully automated. A skilled operator is needed to load the Scooptram ST14 from the control station, but once loaded the machine can automatically haul the rock through tunnels, dump it, and return to the loading site on its own, with no need for an operator!
Perhaps the coolest feature of the Scooptram ST14 is that it is almost fully automated. A skilled operator is needed to load the Scooptram ST14 from the control station, but once loaded the machine can automatically haul the rock through tunnels, dump it, and return to the loading site on its own, with no need for an operator!
http://www.energydigital.com/global...-robotic-virtual-mining-machinery-equipment-0
The autonomous Scooptram ST14 addresses several problems posed with manual loaders. “Driving loaders is monotonous and tiring, from the noise and vibrations. It's not much fun, and it's dangerous," says Sverker Hartwig, Vice President, Technology, Atlas Copco Construction and Mining Technique. ?"When you use female operators on the [manual] Scooptrams, you use less fuel and less rubber," says Hartwig. "
The autonomous Scooptram ST14 addresses several problems posed with manual loaders. “Driving loaders is monotonous and tiring, from the noise and vibrations. It's not much fun, and it's dangerous," says Sverker Hartwig, Vice President, Technology, Atlas Copco Construction and Mining Technique. ?"When you use female operators on the [manual] Scooptrams, you use less fuel and less rubber," says Hartwig. "
And soon it suspect it will even load itself ( I just hope it doesn't have a nervou break down like one of our early machinese did and commit suicide by diving down an ore pass )
Good job driving a LHD bonus included you used to make over 100 grand 10 years ago.
But thats changing fast...
Now its just a job that shakes the shit out of you and makes you piss blood from shaking your innards so hard ( part of the reason it was a good high pay job because it was hard on the body ).
And thanks to modern digital technology and the internet.
A woman in Mexico can be paid 12 dollars an hour to run three of them in Canada.
That should realy make you think and shudder......
Its not the unions fault.
Its all our fault because we thought if we ignored the problems and suimple deregulated everything Capitialism would sort it all out and our wealth would grow.
Are you still swallowing that bullshit story?
Still think the wealthy and big buinsess need tax cuts and handout?
No?
Maybe we need to bust more unions then.
Get rid of more regulations.
That sure worked good in the banking and financial sector didn't it?
They blew up the economy and then we bailed them out.
And as we all go broke together they want more cuts to everything and less regualtions.