Drive past McDonalds on Christmas

>automation of vehicles transporting hundreds of people
>even forseeable in our lifetime
you can't be this deluded

What are cargo planes.

Machines that are susceptible to hazards and challenges that only people can deal with?
Automated trucks are one thing since they're on the ground, easily reachable in case of some issues, and STILL are far away from automation. If a tire goes flat or anything else goes wrong, there's nothing onboard computers can do, while a trucker can deal with the issue in an hour tops.
And flying cargos are even more complicated and mission critical.
I'm not saying it won't happen, just not anytime soon

Fast food wageslaves here are all turbanheads, they don't give a fuck about Christmas

Why do so many people come to fast food restaurants on Christmas? Wouldn't all these people be full from having a fancy Christmas dinner with family?

I think those just transport cargo

I can't see how it would be anything other than a foregone conclusion within a couple of decades at the very latest. Far more important things are entrusted to the hands of computers than human lives from a company standpoint. Many of the aviation disasters from recent times are a direct result of human fallibility. Automated planes cannot be hijacked, cannot be purposely flown into mountains/buildings, aren't subject to human cockiness and arrogance, will be able to run diagnostics beyond the capabilities of a team of engineers in a matter of seconds.

Ah, the 21st century edition of "the titanic is unsinkable"

as opposed to your 21st century edition of "the horse and buggy is here to stay."

Il take my chances over another "les bains"

So transportation-related disasters ended with the advent of the combustion engine? Because that's literally your argument in favour of automation

That's why i said "our lifetime"

You're stretching, and you know it. If you're going to go down that route I'll say you're argument is saying that improvements in transport technology will always and have always resulted in the loss of more lives.

I'm planning on seeing 2040, if you've got other plans then so be it.

anyway I've got to get back to work which will definitely be automated sooner rather than later.

And you're stretching saying automated planes cannot be hijacked or purposely flown into mountains/buildings. Anything designed by human minds is going to have some form of oversight that can be exploited. Not being able to conceive of a flaw doesn't mean a flaw can't exist. Every manmade disaster is completely unfathomable, until it happens.

What family?

Trains and commercial airplane already have auto polit.

Don't pilots get like double overtime or something? My ex's father was a pilot for cathway and he hated it. High salary, 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off, still hated it.

>tfw the golden arches of capitalism were closed this Christmas

corporate owned stores were open
franchise locations were a case by case basis

Look at the communist. Look at him and laugh.

their faces gathered in the window of there clown prison. hi mcdonalds workers hi. wave drive by.

it literally depends on your local franchisee
in my area TB and McD's have an agreement that one of them gets to close on Thanksgiving and the other will close on Christmas

I'll take "obvious statements presented as if they're something more" for $1, Alex

I was the manager at my McDonald's on the Christmas and Christmas Eve night shift. AMA.

Why is your penis so small?

> drive past McDonalds on Christmas
> tfw I'm actually salaried with 3 weeks paid vacation per year + holidays and get paid on Christmas like it was any other day
> tfw I'm not a drain on my parents or the government and can support myself and my wife

do you wear short sleeved shirts in summer for comfort even though it shows of your suicide attempt scars?

Thank you for your dedication to making us wealthy, slave.

t. Your rich and friendly corporate overlords.

Rolling up your sleeves isn't allowed

The HRT

Would you rather be an upper-middle-class white-collar worker that can support their family and has enough money to do fun stuff,

or

A welfare and/or parent-dependent NEET that is stuck in front of a computer (and not necessarily a good one) and can't be independent?

both are the same

Not everyone can achieve the former, so why taunt the already down-on-their-luck latter?

Nope, not even close.

Let me give you an example - I'm actually pretty immature, but I make good money and have know kids. Know what I'm buying for myself this year (2015 I built a top-of-the-line gaming PC and 2016 I got a new car)?

A soda fountain, an ice-cream machine, and a VR headset.

Being a NEET might be nice, but you still have to go to the store for soda and ice cream. I can crank the stuff out in my living room, or get my wife to do it for me, since she doesn't work and has plenty of free time.

*have no kids

I achieved the former coming from a poor family and having normal intelligence. I had to study 6 hours a day every day for 4 years to get my engineering degree, but I'm middle class now.

It's totally doable.

I taught myself a lot about IT running a lab on old dumpstered equipment in my mom's basement, got my foot in the door at a minimum wage helpdesk position in a small-med company, then worked my way up the chain. No reason anyone else couldn't do that.

I'm not saying it isn't achievable, I'm saying it's shitty to be rude to someone who is struggling to improve their lives.

>A soda fountain, an ice-cream machine, and a VR headset.
thats all just material bullshit that will never make you happy, both existences are exactly the same except your buying dumb shit you dont need

Settle down, Eyedea.

>material bullshit that will never make you happy

The lack of material bullshit can certainly make you unhappy, not to mention intangibles like health insurance or dental insurance. I can afford to travel, too, which does directly correlate with happiness - one of the most common deathbed regrets is that one didn't travel enough.

Now, does an ice cream machine necessarily mean I'll be happy in the long run? No. But am I happy in the moment I get fresh icecream while watching a movie with my girl? Yes, quite.

>boo hoo I have to stay in a paid hotel with paid meal working 5 days a week with overtime pay and benefits
Are you seriously trying to get a sympathy out of being a pilot?

Half the time they stay in shitty flyover towns in crappy hotels where the only food is Olive Garden or Taco Bell.

>Pilots
>In flyover towns
Then where was plane?

>Every restaurant in 36,899 location international franchise maintains identical hours of operation

they are making money.

Automation is the latest slippery slope. It was outsourcing when I was in school.

Only three weeks and not four?

>forseeable in our lifetime
The basic task of having vehicles drive without a human driver was already solved years ago, of course every other kind of land vehicle automation is foreseeable in our lifetime.
It's not like some big unsolved problem, everyone's just moving conservatively with these innovations to mitigate the inevitable lawsuits when a human driver does a stupid human thing and gets into an accident with a self-driving car that was doing the right thing.
Road law compliance has to be done explicitly to some extent so that's a limitation, but they already do that well enough to get licensed in at least some jurisdictions.
Everything else is non-explicit, much like with Google Translate or reverse image search. There's no "problem" to solve there, just training.
Driving isn't some magic feat of cognitive ingenuity, it's a collection of output behaviors associated with input information.
>If a tire goes flat
So the reason you believe you're irreplaceable for the foreseeable future is because you can change a flat tire? lol.

Ever play a flight simulator? Autopilot does 90% of standard flights already. The only thing pilots do anymore is takeoff, landing, and communications.

>No reason anyone else couldn't do that.
you forgot about structural racism

>Olive Garden
>bad

You must live in a state with high cost of living. Around where I live you’re lucky to make more than $8 an hour working for the Clown.

He said anyone, not 3/5 of one

apparently you had the free time to do that and the luxury of being housed and fed in the meantime. You might not view that as a posh life but many kids grow up with less. Also it takes some minimum level of intelligence which a lot of people don't have either.

>structural racism
You mean buildings shaped like a KKK or a burning cross?

>apparently you had the free time to do that

I had no social life in middle/high school and only worked part-time intermittently, so I suppose I had more free time than average. Most kids don't work during school, though, so I consider this more of a reward for being asocial in school.

>Self driving trucks tire goes flat, self parks on the side of the road and waits hours, if not days to be serviced by a technician who the company either sends or has available
>Truck with drivers tire goes flat, he parks it on the side of the road and changed it himself in 45 minutes to an hour before continuing to his destination
His job will never be obsolete, they'll just implement self driving tech into newer trucks to act as an assistant to their driving