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LinkPizza posted...

And no one needing to work sounds boring.

Then you should try taking up a hobby. Work should not be the only thing in your life.

LinkPizza posted...

Especially when you can't afford anything because you make no money.

Why would money still exist in a world where robots make everything and human labour becomes redundant?

Money is a physical representation of scarcity, which is the idea that human labour is limited and we are therefore owed recompense for it. In a world where the human cost of the production of anything rounds down to zero, the very idea of money becomes pretty meaningless.

LinkPizza posted...

Self-checkouts have a computer, but also other things like a scanner, conveyor belt (for some), weight sensors (for some, again), and have to see how they will be used by people.

Scanners, conveyor belts, and weight sensors are technology that is decades old. They do not need to be tested to make a self-checkout station.

Hell, a self checkout station isn't really all that different from a normal cashier's station - they're relying on, more or less, the exact same technology.

By contrast, a smart phone is relying on numerous features (like cellular data transfer) and security mechanisms (like facial recognition) that had never been implemented on such a wide scale before. To call them "mini-computers" is laughably simplistic, given that they don't even share operating system architecture.

You think someone trying to steal $100 worth of groceries is bad? Your phone has to protect your banking info, which is probably worth several orders of magnitude more than that.

LinkPizza posted...

In 20 years, the amount of money that could have been save from self-checkouts in a ton.

Relative to their other expenses? No, not really. Otherwise, logically, they would have switched over by now.

If, by switching mortgage companies, I could somehow half my monthly payments I would have no reason not to do so. For self checkouts, stores simply didn't see enough financial incentive to make the change.

It's not an issue of the technology being there, it's an issue of there not being as much of a driver to adopt it. That is not true in the transportation sector, where individual wages are higher and collective wages make up a much, much higher portion of expenditure.

LinkPizza posted...

Like how the insurance will work, which I think is a big one.

Insurance will work the same as it does now. Insurance companies *love* self-driving cars for the same reason employers do - they're more reliable than humans. A customer that pays their premium every year and never gets into any accidents or has any claims is pretty much the perfect customer as far as an insurance company is concerned.

Have you noticed how insurance companies are already offering you discounts to install "safe driver" equipment on your car (like speed monitors that confirm you aren't speeding)? Self-driving cars are that taken to the extreme.

Insuring self-driving cars isn't a problem now, nor will it be in the future.

LinkPizza posted...

That's cars. But I'm talking about public transport.

So am I.

Automated buses are already on the road today and there are no issues with disabled people using them.

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