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
Fun anecdotal fact, when they were doing the trials for driverless trucks the wear on the tires increased because the trucks were driving through the same ruts every time. They had to add some deviation into the GPS to stop that from happening.
Don’t worry, the decision to destroy an ancient sacred Aboriginal site wasn’t automated, they chose to, despite warnings
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/rio-tinto-apologises-for-destroying-aboriginal-sacred-site/idqwqenboNice. Now we can ship our minerals and resources overseas with less of our workers being paid to do so.
Nice now people won’t have to risk their lives a bit more.
Now work on getting your government to tax them and take back your money You are a democracy right?
Right, it’s totally reasonable that the burden be on citizens and not corporations who consistently attempt to capsize the economy with greed. Are you American because it’d tempting to be equally condescending about their “democracy”.
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.
Dw there will be plenty of sales jobs created from selling overseas manufactured goods back to Australians.
Everybodies building rockets to get to the asteroids to mine them, but it’ll be Australian mining companies that do the mining.
These trucks will be popular quickly once they become cheaper than human labour.
Human labour costs:
- Drug testing. Mining has strict rules and lots of mines drug test.
- Pay. Bonus, overtime, vacation, sick days, etc.
- Less work for HR. Reduction of harassment, workplace bullying, conflicts between coworkers and supervisors.
- Other pay, like retirement contribution and health and benefits.
- human accidents (roll over, death, hitting something, etc.)
All these will be eliminated with unmanned trucks. Heavy duty truck drivers make over $100k so they are good jobs, even with a lot of mines having 12 hours shifts.
