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That Robot Wants Your Job!

08/28/2015 3:00 PM

http://www.zdnet.com/article/daimlers-self-driving-18-wheelers-ready-to-take-to-the-autobahn/Germany gets rolling on their Autobahn with autonomous truck.
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08/28/2015 3:17 PM

You wont even be able to tell the difference......

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08/28/2015 3:53 PM

They'll have to do a remake of the movie "Duel" (original starring Dennis Weaver).

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08/28/2015 3:52 PM

That robot ain't going to get my job. I'm retired

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08/28/2015 3:56 PM

This brings up the question. Will robots rest their arm on the door frame?

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08/31/2015 11:19 AM

Hmmmmm, I see a new "word" coming up, - - robotan.

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08/28/2015 6:20 PM

Robots can not want anything.

If they did they would want more pay and faster internet connections, too.
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08/28/2015 7:46 PM

The driver is still there....he's just texting his way cross country....

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08/29/2015 9:08 PM

Probably, responding a CR4 post or posting a discussion. Gush..Is that Peeewee?
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08/28/2015 9:22 PM

If some robot wants my last job, it can have it.

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08/28/2015 10:45 PM

No robot will EVER replace me until they can program one to drink beer!!!!!!!!!!!

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08/28/2015 11:05 PM

That would only take a holding tank and a solenoid valve--and then it will be able to drink you under the table. Tilt, game over....

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08/30/2015 9:39 PM

Oh come on - that is just moving a fluid from one container to another!

Drinking involves much more!!! Belching, urinating, and I don't think alcohol would affect the memory/programming as it would in a human!!!

Could it do the mechanical action?? Sure, could the outcome be the same??

Doubtful....slam-dunk

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08/31/2015 7:32 AM

That would be stupid.

Far better to program the robot to make beer!
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08/28/2015 11:25 PM

Open the Pod bay doors, HAL.

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08/29/2015 5:12 AM

If it is really an autonomous truck why would it need doors, a windscreen, steering wheel, seats, stove, a bed that can fit two in at a squeeze (truckers get lonely too). Or did the guy leading this project just forget to brief the graphic artist.
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08/29/2015 3:02 PM

I wonder if they can do better than this guy.

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08/29/2015 9:16 PM

Yep, no problem, anytime, as long as I got its remote.

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