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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday July 26 2017, @02:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the maybe-they-can-be-tech-support-for-the-cars dept.

India is resisting the push towards driverless cars in order to protect jobs, its transport minister has said.

Nitin Gadkari said the government would "not allow any technology that takes away jobs".

He said India needed to recruit about 22,000 more commercial drivers and would be opening 100 training facilities to address the need.

India's road system and sometimes chaotic traffic makes it a difficult place to develop the technology.

The Hindustan Times reports Mr Gadkari as saying: "We won't allow driverless cars in India. I am very clear on this.

"In a country where you have unemployment, you can't have a technology that ends up taking people's jobs."

Wonder what Mr. Gadkari's position is on the technology that has outsourced jobs in America and Europe to India?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 26 2017, @04:25AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 26 2017, @04:25AM (#544461)

    The boss owns the gold (and makes the rules). That is the race, Globalism is the shape it has taken for USA and Europe, thinking others would play along and not check for their own interests. So no, not very wise when some countries play as they want instead as of told.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Wednesday July 26 2017, @05:21AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday July 26 2017, @05:21AM (#544487) Journal

    The gold (money) is a convention (rational or not), but when the convention finishes by no longer being socially useful, I bet the society will pat the "winners" on the back or on the head (possibly using pitchforks) to "congratulate them for wining" and move along with other "rules of the game".
    Will the "rules of the new game" be wiser? I doubt it, but in any case the "old game" is close enough to its end to have me with good chances of seeing the start of the next game beginning to happen.

    It will happen, the "small-percenters" need the rest of the population more than the other way around.

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