>>2016817>>2016862Frankly said: As a child train or bus driver were my dream occupations.
These days (not Japan, obviously) the passenger quality has degraded to a level, I wouldn't want to have to deal with them with a ten feet pole between me and them, and it's probably one of the few occupations, that will actually be made redundant by AI in the mid-term.
Especially in case of regular railways (as opposed to "New Transit" systems, which are already automated) it's more of a legislative problem than a technological issue, but even with road vehicles it's anything but far off.
It would probably be a good stopgap measure to train unemployed people in their late 40s/early 50s to become bus, truck and train drivers.
10 to 15 years from now appears to be a reasonable time-frame for the complete automation of mobility.
