Automation uses machinery to enhance different systems. A systems can be anything from an assembly line (robotics) to self driving cars and trucks (Waymo). Google is hiring more engineers recently than any other company and it is not for their typical google fair of products - it is for their next big thing - self driving cars (WAYMO). Google is using automation in vehicles to create self driving cars and it is the near future that this concept will be a reality. Google started this project back in 2009 and conservative predictions have 10 million self driving cars on the road by 2020.
I have an article to read that comes from MIT Review --> tinyurl.com/yaes5uwo
Also last Sunday morning on CBS this Morning they did a Money segment. This was very interesting considering how many jobs this will involve both in a positive and negative. There are roughly 1.7 milllion truck drivers on the road today and with self driving trucks - what will be their employment fate? - more traditional jobs disappearing being replaced with automation. The jobs that will be created will be the "high tech" jobs of creating the technology to replace lower skill jobs. I think there will be some science especially physics and engineering in those jobs.
Take a few minutes about 8:53 minutes to be exact and watch this piece from CBS This Morning
What does this all mean? How will this affect the employment landscape in the upcoming years. How will this effect you? How to you see the future of transportation?