OT. Burger Bot.

[Dean Hoffman]

From tech insider:

or

A burger made without human intervention.

[Gordon Shumway]

Oh, no! What will those minimum skilled workers do without their minimum wage job?

[Frank]

Most likely already done for the frozen burger business:

Did not read but apparently not that great but if you did not freeze and just sold hot out of the machine you could out the workers that make them.

[Stormin Mormon]

If you take a more in depth look, you might find a lot of people from the cow to the end restaurant. Someone has to put the ingredients in the machines, clean the machines at the end of the day. Someone drives the product to the store, keeps the machine running when it breaks. Someone repairs the power lines outside the store, and the list goes on.

Lot of people, and likely none of them min wage.

[Stormin Mormon]

Become truck drivers, or robot repairmen.

[Mike Duffy]

Now all we need is a robot to clean the toilets. Hopefully, this will be not be the same robot that flips the burgers.

[gfretwell]

That will just be the employee one holer because fast food will all go out the window. Order on your phone, pay on your phone and a robot might even hand you the bag.

[Dean Hoffman]

I don't think the feedlot cowboys make a lot but don't know that for fact. This link

is to a farm related employment service if you're at all interested.

[gfretwell]

The feedlot cowboys who supply fast food joints get paid in Pesos

[Gordon Shumway]

Yawn.

[Diesel]

Like I said...

"I have a long (and well known by some) history in the IT scene, actually."

Try not to be so quick to put your foot in your mouth, again.

[Diesel]

Well, that's one way of looking at it.

The main point is, full automation for everyone is still a ways off... a human still needs to be able to take/resume control of the vehicle should the vehicles systems make an error, which can happen. Or, the systems encounter a road situation they aren't programmed to deal with.

Not only do you need to work out a lot of bugs with the technologies (it's being ripped off of aircraft technology anyway; fly by wire, etc; it happens to work a little differently on the ground as far as actual control/failure scenarios. Planes have redundant systems in the event of a problem, cars typically don't) you also need the supporting infrastructure up and going. And, you still have to deal with the unpredictable nature of certain human drivers that are sharing the roadways with your automated car, but, don't have an automated car themselves.

[Gordon Shumway]

There is no conceit in your family -- you have it all.

[Diesel]

You're super mature for whatever age you might be. Someday, you'll learn to accept that you aren't always right. You might even mature enough to admit when you're wrong, too. Maybe...