Even in the west of Ireland we have drone delivery. I was thinking that in a couple of years lorry driving will not be so necessary. I had forgotten about driverless vehicles, which will improve over the next few years too. There will not be much money in any type of driving in the future. F1 perhaps.
I had seen a programme before saying drones could be huge and well able to transport heavy goods. I don't like the idea of it, but it will happen.

What about the many thousands of jobs created in the automation industry? Design, development of both hardware and software, maintenance, testing, new versions/releases etc. It's progress and all for the good as it replaces low skilled, low paid manual jobs with high skilled higher paid jobs. Sure there'll be some casualties on the way but the vast majority will benefit. Otherwise we would all still be in a pre industrial world with all of the horrors that entailed.

What about the many thousands of jobs created in the automation industry? Design, development of both hardware and software, maintenance, testing, new versions/releases etc. It's progress and all for the good as it replaces low skilled, low paid manual jobs with high skilled higher paid jobs. Sure there'll be some casualties on the way but the vast majority will benefit. Otherwise we would all still be in a pre industrial world with all of the horrors that entailed.

Most software testing is now fully automated. When I started in IT you employed about 300 testers on large projects today you need about 30 to write the scripts after which the system does the rest.

This is the challenge, taxi cabs replaced the horse drawn carriage, secretaries became personal assistants, today AI and robotics will create new jobs but they may not be done by humans.

Correct, only those that no one wants to employ (for various reasons) will volunteer to work in the UK, basically the dregs of the industry as there's plenty of well paid professional commercial driving demand in most European countries right now as the economies of most countries opened up weeks (sometimes months) ago before that of the UK creating a strong and healthy demand for qualified personnel.

Edited by Orange1290 (25 Sep 2021 3.00pm)

yes but that automation itself needs people to create that automated system. I've been in certain areas of IT all of my life and there has never, ever been so much work around all over Europe and it's growing every year. Automation frees humans to do other things, such as innovate and innovation improves lives and creates the next level of employment. That's always been the case.

Edited by Orange1290 (26 Sep 2021 7.33pm)