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MIT forecast: autonomous vehicles won’t take truckers’ jobs

MIT forecast: autonomous vehicles won’t take truckers’ jobs

Developers of self-driving cars have been making fast progress toward fully independent systems in recent months, but according to an MIT study on the impact of technology on the workforce , the drain on truck-driving jobs is not expected to be widespread in the short term.

That prognosis isn’t stopping proponents from investing in the sector. In recent weeks alone, Alabama’s Auburn University said it is building an $800,000 addition to the autonomous vehicle research facility at the school’s National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT), allowing experts to run tests indoors. And the self-driving truck provider Plus.ai announced a plan […]

Report: Wide use of self-driving vehicles ‘at least’ a decade away

Report: Wide use of self-driving vehicles ‘at least’ a decade away

Driverless vehicles will take at least ten years to deploy over large areas, and adoption will occur at different rates across the country, according to an MIT research brief .

“We expect that fully automated driving will be restricted to limited geographic regions and climates for at least the next decade,” the authors write.

The brief, released Wednesday, was published by a university task force created two years ago to examine the future of work during an “age of innovation.”As such, a significant portion of the report is dedicated to the jobs impact of autonomous deployment, an impact the authors state […]

Bavaria’s PM on transition to EVs: ‘Tesla is not bad, but others can do it, too’

Bavaria’s PM on transition to EVs: ‘Tesla is not bad, but others can do it, too’

The German auto industry and its 800,000 jobs are threatened if it can’t transition to EVs fast enough. The country’s politicians, and automotive executives, have a unified message. As Bavaria’s prime minister Markus Söder put it today: “Tesla is not bad, but others can do it too.”

The threat to German jobs from EVs was the premise of a story today from Deutsche Welle (DW), the German broadcaster. While electric-vehicle technology reduces the number of parts to be assembled — a technological advance — it’s repeatedly characterized as the destroyer of auto jobs. The shift to better technology, improved engineering, […]

How Automation Affects Labor Mobility

How Automation Affects Labor Mobility

The impact of technological and economic changes on industries has been pretty well examined over the years, not least as the impact of declining industries or employers has such a profound impact on the vitality of towns and even cities. Are communities able to regenerate, and develop new employment in place of what was often the dominant employer in the area? Do people leave the area in the search for new work? Do communities enter a terminal decline?

The threat of technological disruption has been well documented in recent years, and of course, the economic fall-out of the coronavirus pandemic […]

A New Age of Feudalism for the Working Class?

A New Age of Feudalism for the Working Class?

In the past, fears of job losses from automation were often overstated. Technological progress eliminated some jobs but created others, and often better-paying ones. In the early days of the high-tech revolution, many of the pioneering firms—such as Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and IBM—were widely praised for treating their lower-level workers as part of the company and deserving of opportunities for advancement, as well as benefits including health insurance and a pension.

The labor policies of the newer generation of tech giants tend to be vastly different. Firms like Tesla have been sued for failing to pay contract workers the legally mandated […]

COVID-19 is accelerating the pace of automation and the need for UBI

COVID-19 is accelerating the pace of automation and the need for UBI

COVID-19 is accelerating the pace of automation and the need for UBI The coronavirus crisis has acted as a catalyst for two powerful transformative forces: automation and universal basic income.

These two intertwined forces will undoubtedly gain steam, writes Frederick Kuo, and the pandemic will hasten the acceptance of them from a scale of decades to years or mere months.

This crisis has ushered in a glimpse of what a dystopian future could look like as a rapidly advancing fourth industrial revolution inevitably causes severe disruption in our economy and labor structure. The coronavirus pandemic has sent the […]

Future of work in a post-Covid world

Future of work in a post-Covid world

Apart from technologies like cloud, A.I., IoT, and Big Data, pandemic-attack driven compulsions will also influence the future of work.

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History tells us that human beings have been around for 200,000 odd years. Of these, till about 12,000 years ago, they were hunter-gatherers. Then agriculture happened and they were relieved of bothering about the basic physiological needs of hunger and shelter. This was a watershed moment in the evolution of human history, with ‘cultivation and extraction’ becoming the key economic drivers. It is about 250 years ago that the industrial revolution happened and human output efficiency got […]

Info@automation in automotive industry pdf

The fluid used is oil. automobile industry. It was a time period where the idea of cheap gas was shattered and the demand for more gas efficient cars increased. ‣ To date regulation, incumbency and cost has protected the industry from extreme disruption. The History of Robotics in the Automotive Industry. The advent of robotic process automation (RPA) was a key milestone for the development of the automotive industry. With some 169,000 people employed directly in manufacturing and 814,000 across the wider automotive industry(1). Energy efficiency, mobility and security are the main challenges facing modern society. In this year’s […]

Is Coronavirus Pandemic Accelerating the Digitalization and Automation of Cities?

Is Coronavirus Pandemic Accelerating the Digitalization and Automation of Cities?

For nations worldwide, the course of action to fight the spread and effects of coronavirus COVID-19 has been to implement quarantines; restricting the movement of the general population while isolating people infected by the disease, albeit indefinitely. The result: both public and private spaces have closed in a bid to curb the number of new cases. At the same time, the rising number of deaths has added to both social and economic uncertainty, with people across the globe asking "how are we going to work?" or, better yet, "how are we supposed to eat?"

For many work places, " home […]

The false bipartisan narrative on the economy

Today’s bipartisan Cassandra caucus includes Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren (“ the rich get richer, while everyone else falls behind ”) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (“ our standard of living has fallen ”) and Republican Sens. Marco Rubio (“ we have been left with an economy and a society no one is happy with ”) and Josh Hawley (“ Over the last several decades, inflation-adjusted wages for the working class have barely budged ”). The caucus says the U.S. economy is primarily producing disappointment, even misery. This narrative is largely false, yet can be self-fulfilling.

Fortunately, Michael R. Strain ’s just-published […]