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by zaroth 3686 days ago
A booming business in automation and robot repair.
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The whole point is that you need fewer humans in the loop. If every factory worker automated out of a job was hired back to work on the robots, we'd skip the automation part entirely.
Good luck learning to program or repair self-driving trucks when you've been a truck driver for your whole career.
Self-driving trucks have mechanical parts too. Even if you automate basic mechanical maintenance, operation and supervision will still require human intervention for a relatively long time.