bluehdmc
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I bank at a credit union that has one of those, no charge for account holders.
They charge non-members, but it is less than 9%.
Delivery Driver Jobs To Disappear by 2030
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I bank at a credit union that has one of those, no charge for account holders.
They charge non-members, but it is less than 9%.
bluehdmc
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Had a friend that worked for Fleet Bank, since bought out by Bank of America. They were charging $2.50 for transactions at a teller that could have been done at the ATM.
UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)
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IIRC Fleet was located primarily in New England.
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Packmule
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I see the truck driving itself, someone still needs to be there to do everything else. All they have coming down the pipe so far makes management and their trucks responsible for accidents. All humans do is move the packages from the truck to the customer's door. Sounds like win win to me--especially in winter!
Sounds like something that'd be offset by a paycut.
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I was thinking the same thing. I also think if the truck drives itself. I would be the one walking really slowly. For each delivery. It needs me.
. They might really want me to retire. Maybe then we will be offered a buyout. It may be fun.
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Automation has already replaced thousands of jobs at UPS in the past 15 years and no doubt tens of thousands more will evaporate in the next 15. Driverless delivery driver is a reality and could be here in 15 years. But to completely replace every single driving job? Won't happen.
Now would be a good time, though, to watch Back to the Future to see how 2015 was envisioned in 1985... I think the Cubs win the World Series this year
.Interesting. Please be more specific.
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TooTechie
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The first issue: You'd have to get everyone to agree not to own and operate their own vehicle to make that BS work. You'd have to essentially have a network of autonomous vehicles or a smart tram system, but you couldn't have that and driver-operated vehicles on the road. The article talks about people giving up their vehicles.
Second issue: Dirt roads or remote areas with people who live 30 minutes from their nearest neighbor or 45 minutes from the nearest business.
Vehicles won't be replaced. People will always want to have their own private conveyance. At some point energy storage may become efficient and affordable enough that everyone has a purely electric vehicle, but it would need to have a much longer range than current electric vehicles to become the norm. Hybrids appear to be the closest we'll get for a while.
Robotics could be used for some deliveries, but each address would essentially have to be programmed in to ever work. You can't always drive to 10 Maple St and just walk 25 feet to an open porch and drop a package. Many places wouldn't be robot/drone friendly including unmarked buildings, buildings with non-conventional entrances, buildings behind buildings, buildings in the woods, etc etc.
This article was an over-reach.
Second issue: Dirt roads or remote areas with people who live 30 minutes from their nearest neighbor or 45 minutes from the nearest business.
Vehicles won't be replaced. People will always want to have their own private conveyance. At some point energy storage may become efficient and affordable enough that everyone has a purely electric vehicle, but it would need to have a much longer range than current electric vehicles to become the norm. Hybrids appear to be the closest we'll get for a while.
Robotics could be used for some deliveries, but each address would essentially have to be programmed in to ever work. You can't always drive to 10 Maple St and just walk 25 feet to an open porch and drop a package. Many places wouldn't be robot/drone friendly including unmarked buildings, buildings with non-conventional entrances, buildings behind buildings, buildings in the woods, etc etc.
This article was an over-reach.
Actually, the only real reason I know as much as I do about the government mandated breakup of AT&T and the Bell Corporation is because my step-father was pretty much forcibly retired from AT&T Long Lines when it happened.
Start here to get kind of an idea of how many iterations the Baby Bells went through:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System
And, as for the wireless side, look here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_industry_in_the_United_States
I remember him telling me about every month that the stock he had in A company was now B and C company. It was hectic.
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Automation has already replaced thousands of jobs at UPS in the past 15 years and no doubt tens of thousands more will evaporate in the next 15. Driverless delivery driver is a reality and could be here in 15 years. But to completely replace every single driving job? Won't happen.
Now would be a good time, though, to watch Back to the Future to see how 2015 was envisioned in 1985... I think the Cubs win the World Series this year
Interesting. Please be more specific.
The cost of these new automated cars will be astronomical and won't be worth the price years until after the technology is produced. Then there is the legal and PR hurdles to get through before this becomes wide spread and accepted.
Heck the guys starting now will have their 35 years in way before this all happens. It might affect my kids generation but I'm highly doubtful
TooTechie
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I come from a phone company family and worked for the phone company for over a decade. My mother started with AT&T which after divestiture in 84 became New England Telephone (and the other baby bells). I started with the company when it became NYNEX, which stood for New York, New England and beyond (the X stood for beyond). Around 97 NYNEX merged with Bell Atlantic and took the Bell Atlantic name, then later the company acquired GTE and to get rid of the regional/geographical names became Verizon, which we were told was a combination of Veritas, latin for "truth" conveying reliability and trustworthiness and horizon, looking forward to the future. For years customers thought it was pronounced Vara-zohn like it looks instead of Ver-eye-zin.
margaritaville
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There is a pretty simple answer in regards to getting it to the front door/etc. But it depresses me. so dont want to say it. I'm sure they will figure it out anyways. I dont think we'll lose our jobs but wage decreases prob happen in our lifetime for people under 35. As in, expect this 
ty wage or be laid off. Hopefully not, but probably.
ty wage or be laid off. Hopefully not, but probably.
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Last robot in that video couldn't even grab a third point of contact when getting out of the vehicle. And I'm supposed to believe that these pieces of
are going to put us out of work when they ride in self driving cars navigated by Orion and deliver boxes?Similar threads
