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New instalment of tech LARP. The Amazon worker replacement edition
2023 Oct 20, 1:46pm 1,814 views 34 comments
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HeadSet
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2023 Oct 21, 3:47pm
HeadSet
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2023 Oct 21, 3:47pm
richwicks says
I have seen natural gas conversions since the 1970s. In the 1990s. Ford gave a fleet of natural gas powered Crown Vics to an Atlanta cab company to test. Virginia Natural Gas has converted all their pickup trucks to run on natural gas.
Natural gas powered cars would be.
I have seen natural gas conversions since the 1970s. In the 1990s. Ford gave a fleet of natural gas powered Crown Vics to an Atlanta cab company to test. Virginia Natural Gas has converted all their pickup trucks to run on natural gas.
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2023 Oct 21, 8:27pm
richwicks
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2023 Oct 21, 8:27pm
HeadSet says
I don't believe they have the range that a conventional gas powered vehicle does, but they are cheap to run, and as I understand it (which may be in gross error), conversion from gas to natural gas is not too difficult or expensive and the engine can run on both fuels. I think it's regulations and taxation that prevents it.
richwicks says
Natural gas powered cars would be.
I have seen natural gas conversions since the 1970s. In the 1990s. Ford gave a fleet of natural gas powered Crown Vics to an Atlanta cab company to test. Virginia Natural Gas has converted all their pickup trucks to run on natural gas.
I don't believe they have the range that a conventional gas powered vehicle does, but they are cheap to run, and as I understand it (which may be in gross error), conversion from gas to natural gas is not too difficult or expensive and the engine can run on both fuels. I think it's regulations and taxation that prevents it.
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2023 Oct 21, 9:06pm
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2023 Oct 21, 9:06pm
Should invest to improve Amazon worker productivity such as better tools to do their job. This robot looks like R&D waste.
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Well NO actually they did not say that, the actual report is they created these huge robots to perform Warehouse tasks. It's the media that's hyping it as the human replacements. Which that's all Amazon wants, to put the human employees and future employees on notice that they are replaceable.
I don't think these robots will ever do it, but let take a look at the video and see if you can spot what's wrong with this idea.
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Besides it just being a 20 second video, and in spite of the human over there very slowly feeding the tubs on the conveyor belt. The tubs don't even look like they have much of a load. Those Robots looks flimsy and clumsy, why do they need headlights on their eyes? The whole operation there looked slow and feeble. That was 20 seconds of a robot hobbling to a table, then hobbling back.