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0 pointsyunwal5d ago0 comments

> A flat tire is a flat tire, no matter whether a recession is going on or whether LLMs are causing chaos in white collar work.

There’s really not much stopping changing tires from being automated away. Further standardization of tires or wage increases would probably do the trick.

There’s still plenty of software to be created. You’ll probably have to learn some ML tricks or whatever, but there’s nothing going away, just changing as software has always done.

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reaperducer5d ago

There’s really not much stopping changing tires from being automated away.

Sounds like you've never changed a tire. Or at least not outside of a very controlled environment.

eks3915d ago

I wouldn't be so sure. I have been impressed by several things that seem to be complex but a way to be automated was found. Sure a no controlled environment is not conducive to automation, but who said a tow truck wouldn't be a part of the process? Washing a car has been automated with the precursor that the car is brought to the controlled environment first.

I have even replaced car tires before and yet still have this opinion.

tayo425d ago

Are most cars not just undoing the lock, the bolts, switching the tire and redoing the bolts and locks?

How are these put on in the first place on an assembly line?

sharkjacobs5d ago

This is the funniest possible answer to "Sounds like you've never changed a tire. Or at least not outside of a very controlled environment."

"Oh, you think I've never changed a tire? Well here is my abstract high level understanding of the steps to changing a tire! And have you considered the quintessential controlled environment for putting tires onto cars?"

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fragmede5d ago

https://www.pitproauto.com/ is working on that!

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