The rise of the motor-droid promises not just of hordes of jobless drivers, but also of the transformation of the associated traffic infrastructure, from training to fuel stations. There’s also the potential for motor-droid piracy. Star Wars is rife with pirates and bounty hunters. A future Earth of droid-driven traffic is full of the promise of pirates boarding freight-droids, or hacker-jackers, with the skills needed to hack into droid software, and hijack the freight onto an alternate journey of their choosing. Inevitably the rise of the robots will put people out of work. Bank of America
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