One of the harsh realities creeping up on the middle-class blue collar worker is that robots are definitely on the verge of replacing jobs long thought to always exist.
Remember when people use to sit in booths and take money from you to cross the bridge? I hope you don’t think cities are going to pay people to drive around and look for expired parking meters. Once autonomous vehicles are adopted into the mainstream, we won’t need anyone to drive a street sweeper, taxi cab, or pizza delivery car.
Take the BurgerBot for instance. You can be certain McDonald’s is working on a completely automated kitchen where only a couple people are needed to feed the machine ingredients.