On Monday, June 12, 2017 at 1:25:35 PM UTC-4, Richard Persing wrote:
On 6/9/2017 4:45 PM, Steve from Colorado wrote:
I was doing some fishing up near the townsite of Toland off the
Burlington Northern railroad near the Moffat Tunnel and noticed their
are no humans controlling the locomotives waiting on the siding while
some train coming the other direction gets the right of way. I guess
some Silicon VAlley startup has figured away to put all railroad
engineers out of work, losing their pensions and livelihood to robots. I
wonder if they're is going to be an uprising as good paying jobs get
eliminated by automation and Amazon.

No, there will be no uprising.

There are no robotic freight trains in the United States. There are a few light-rail passenger lines, especially monorails and subways that have no other traffic intersections, that are autonomous.

As for "losing pensions," not that either.

I think we're getting a look at the way attitudes are shaped among the people who became Trump voters. Facts have nothing to do with it; it's all attitude, conspiracy theories, and empty accusations.

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Ed Huntress