Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) and the 70,000 jobs at stake.

#AutonomousVehicles (AVs) and the 70,000 #jobs at stake.

Beautiful it may be as AVs roll on the streets at our beck and call, relieving us from the hassle and trouble of driving so that we can read a book, do our work or watch a video as we travel; the fact is a segment of our #workforce might be affected.

The frontline #drivers of #taxis, private hire vehicles (PHVs), buses and trucks may just vanish. That’s a big displacement of jobs. Just PHVs alone amount to 67,000 compared to the 18,000 taxi population in Singapore.

This article weighs the pros and cons of AVs. We might have run too fast with technology and missed the idea that technology is here to augment and serve us.

Read the article to find out the humourous follies of AVs that may tickle you intellectually as human professionals try to reason with them in traffic.

Meanwhile, spare a thought for the drivers who make our day through insightful conversations during our journeys.

#marvinTechAdvocate

I am Mar Vin Foo 🪟🌿.

Thank you for drawing our own observations alongside the excitement of AV evangelists.

Swee Yong 邱瑞榮 KuSheila Maria Arcuino Conejos (Selah Conejos), PhD, RAIA, FMP