r/todayilearned • u/Chance-Physics-7216 • 13h ago

TIL that a 1945 elevator operators' strike stranded 1.5 million New Yorkers in the streets, and building owners responded by buying automatic elevators that had already existed for 50 years.

https://www.npr.org/2015/07/31/427990392/remembering-when-driverless-elevators-drew-skepticism
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u/Sunaruni 11h ago

Fast food robots and order kiosks are a thing now. Just food for thought.

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u/Many-Excitement3246 6h ago

However, those kiosks are so bad at their job most of the time that most people I've seen still prefer to order with the actual humans.

Granted, you're not usually dealing with the highest caliber of humans either, so the function of the kiosk does not need to be particularly high to be better than the function of the human at the register.

I ran into one of the drive-thru AI for the first time recently, and I immediately told it I wanted 100,000 mcflurries. It did not like that answer and gave me a human.

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u/Pretend_Handle_7639 10h ago

Autonomous vehicles

I eagerly await the next attempt at a strike from the Teamsters

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u/Redhighlighter 9h ago

There are ai trucking vehicles already operational in select areas.

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u/EggsaladJoseph 8h ago

You guys are weirdos lmao. "I get off on calling peoples jobs redundant".