I was reading how China had started to test unmanned trucks, and in researching found that Australia was already a decade ahead.
(2014) Rio Tinto: rolling out the world’s first fully driverless mines
(2018) World-first autonomous trains deployed at Rio Tinto’s iron ore operations - This one is also apparently the ‘worlds biggest robot’
(2021) Rio Tinto to deploy world’s first fully autonomous water trucks at Gudai-Darri
Corporations are evil, you cannot expect them to do the right thing voluntarily.
It is up to the people to defend themselves from the corpos. And in theory a democracy should be a giant representation of the people, capable of fighting said corporations at comparable or greater scale and with full authority over what happens in itself.
So my first remark highlighting this being obviously done to reduce expenses on employee wages is met with a remark about “”safety”” because surely that’s why corps are trying to automate jobs, and dripping condescension. Now you’re presuming to lecture me on democracy and corporations being evil. Not to be rude, but you seem like someone that doesn’t socialise outside social media very much.
Ad hominems say more about you than anything.
Also the irony of ‘dripping condescension’ here is peak giving.