How well do you think the economy is going in the next few years?

[Mr Khan]

BraveNewWorld said:

Nettles said:
What happens in China when more and more manufacturing is automated by robots?
The number #1 occupation in the US is truck drivers.What happens when self driving vehicles hit the road in 10-15 years? Plus taxi drivers, driving instructors etc will also be gone.The few with jobs will be the lucky ones.

Somebody has to ride with the auto-piolted vehicle for refueling, this would pay less, but it's still a job -- or they have to role out nuclear powerered vehicles.

Not ride with it, the jobs would be created in mobile repair garages and increased employment at diesel stations (many diesel stations these days are unmanned because the trucks themselves are. If that reverses, then you have, at least temporarily before the stations upgrade to automatic, a need to have a few people there to pump gas). Mobile repairmen would be needed to take calls from automatic trucks when they break down: the truck would pull over and put out a call, and the nearest associated repairman would then rush over to the scene to patch it up, like with busted tires or something.