Whats the point Wrote:
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> What is the point of all the full automation and
> driverless crap anyway? I don't want a driverless
> car. Or to see a driverless train run over a kid.
> It is a national security issue when your
> transportation network is fully automated or even
> automated with 1 person attending it. If there
> were a war or a cyber attack without a war these
> transportation modes would become useless because
> they wouldn't work and you would have no one
> qualified to operate them manually. This along
> with many other things would put are nation at a
> disadvantage. What is the point of having these
> corporations when the race now seems to have
> little or no employees other then the overpaid
> executives? It does not create a very good
> economic balance and seems nothing more than a
> race to the bottom of civilization. All these
> people who use words such as "safety" and "human
> error" to justify this seem to be hiding their
> real motives. I'd like to see one of these
> automated trains make it through some remote
> location or East St. Louis without being robbed of
> all their goods they are hauling when they are
> abruptly stopped and looted by unemployed thieves.

What's the point? Next quarter's gain in stock price. Nothing else matters.